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Diary and Correspondence of 


Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. 


Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign 
of Charles II and James II 


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SAMUEL PEPYS 


PREFACE 


TO THE FOURTH EDITION 


HE Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, and the History of his 
Short Hand Diary, have been so long well known to 
the literary world, that the fourth edition of the work, 

comprised in the following pages, can hardly require any 
formal or lengthened introduction. It should, however, be 
explained, that as the edition of 1848, which had found more 
general favour than its predecessors, was already out of print, 
Mr. Henry Colburn, the publisher, strongly urged that the 
book should be again brought forth under my auspices, and 
I have ventured to accede to his request. So true is the 
French couplet: 


“On revient toujours, 
A ses premiers amours.” 


There appeared, indeed, no necessity to amplify, or in any 
way to alter the text of the Diary, beyond the correction of 
a few verbal errors and corrupt passages, hitherto over- 
looked; but care has been taken to transplant all the notes 
from the Addenda in the fifth volume, into their proper places 
at the bottom of the page in which the first mention occurs 
of the person or subject to which they relate; and in all 
cases where references are made to other parts of the Diary, 


dates have been substituted for paginal numbers, so that 


vi PREFACE 


every passage quoted may now be found with equal facility 
in all the editions of the work. 

But a still greater improvement has been carried out by 
printing the new edition in an octavo form, owing to which 
it is now restricted to four volumes, without any of the 
matter being omitted; and sufficient space is afforded for the 
insertion of a great variety of fresh notes and illustrations, 
and several interesting letters, hitherto unpublished, have 
been added to the Correspondence. 

We may assume that, considering the multiplicity of sub- 
jects occurring throughout the Diary, very few passages are 
now left unexplained, an advantage mainly attributable to 
the good offices of my friend Mr. John Holmes of the British 
Museum, who, in the same spirit which induced him to assist 
me on a former occasion, came again to the rescue; and besides 
contributing a great many interesting notes, took the pains 
to verify the information supplied from other sources, and 
to examine every sheet, while the work was in the press. I 
hope the reader will not fail duly to appreciate the value and 
extent of these kind and most effective services, for which 
I cannot feel sufficiently grateful, conscious as I am, at my 
advanced age, how materially the editorial duties would have 
suffered had I been left to my own resources. 

I am also indebted to Mr. Peter Cunningham for some 
useful notes communicated while the Diary was printing, as 
well as for such hints as I obtained from his Hand Book of 
London. I should further mention, that Mr. James Yeowell, 
who was selected by Mr. Colburn to re-arrange the notes and 
index, and to make extracts from such MS. materials as he 


discovered in the British Museum and Bodleian Library, per- 


PREFACE vii 


formed his task to my entire satisfaction, and is entitled to 
my best thanks. 

In conclusion, I wish to say a few words as to the history 
of the Diurnall of Thomas Rugge, B.M. (Additional MSS. 
10,116, 10,117), so frequently quoted in the Notes, to a 
transcript of which, made with a view to its publication, I 
was fortunate enough to procure access. The extracts indeed 
might have been multiplied ad infinitum, had it seemed expe- 
dient, for Rugge was a contemporary of Pepys, and they were 
both residing in London, and keeping Diaries at the same 
time. Upon comparing their respective accounts of the same 
transactions, it is not surprising that they should agree as to 
the main facts; but it is satisfactory to find how often they 
corroborate each other in the minor details, thereby affording 
strong presumption of their veracity. The MS. is described 


in Mr. Holmes’s own words as 


“MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS;” 


01, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and trans- 
actions in Public Affairs since Anno Dfi, 1659, untill 


(28 March, 1672), 


serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and 
information, 


By Tuomas Rvcce. 


Est natura hominum novitatis avida.—Plinius. 


This MS. belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl 
of Stamford. It has his autograph at the commencement, 
and on the sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold. 
In 1819, it was sold by auction in London, as part of the 
collection of Thomas Lloyd, Esq. (No. 1465), and was then 
bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller. Whilst Mr. Lloyd 
was the possessor, the MS. was lent to Dr. Lingard, whose 


Vill PREFACE 


note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume. 
From Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the 
sale of whose MSS. in Feb. 1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall 
Mall, it was purchased by the British Museum for 81. 8s. 
Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk 
family, and two of his ancestors are described as Aldermen 
of Norwich. His death has been ascertained to have occurred 
_ about 1672; and in the Diary for the preceding year he com- 
plains that on account of his declining health, his entries will 
be but few. Nothing has been traced of his personal circum- 
stances beyond the fact of his having lived for fourteen years 


in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality. 


BrayBROOKE. 


Audley End. 


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LIFE 


OF 


SAMUEL PEPYS 


AMUEL PEPYS, the author of the Diary, was descended 
S from a younger branch of the ancient family of that 
name, who settled at Cottenham, in Cambridgeshire, 
early in the sixteenth century; and are represented in Blome- 
field’s History of Norfolk to have been previously seated at 
Diss, in that county; but he himself did not think that his 
ancestors ever had been considerable.* 

The recent discovery of an old manuscript volume, for- 
merly belonging to the great uncle of our Journalist, en- 
titled, Liber Talbott Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda perti- 
nentibus exemplificatis, enables me to trace their origin 
to a more remote period. This curious book, for the 
loan of which I am indebted to the kindness of the Rey. 
John Dale, Vicar of Bolney, Sussex, was found by him in 
March, 1852, in an ancient chest in his parish Church: and 
contains, inter alia, the following entry :—‘ A Noate written 
out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys.” 

“William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was 
brought up by the Abbat of Crowland,? in Huntingdon- 


*See Diary, 10th February, 1661-2, post. 
?Compare 12th June, 1667, vol. iii, 149, 


VOL. I. b 


x LIFE OF 


shire, and he was borne in Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentle- 
man, whom the said Abbat did make his Bayliffe of all his 
lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in Cottenham, 
which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John, 
and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all 
of whom left issue.” 

We come now to John Pepys, the father of Samuel, and 
grandson of Thomas Pepys last mentioned, who was a citizen 
of London, where he followed the trade of a tailor till the 
year 1660; when he retired to Brampton, near Hunting- 
don, at which place he had inherited a small property, 
worth about 40]. rental, from an elder brother, and ended 
his days there in 1680. Of our author’s mother, it is only 
known that her baptismal name was Margaret, and that she 
died in 1666-7, having had issue six sons and five daughters, 
of which number, three males, and one female, were living 
in 1659. 

Samuel, the eldest surviving son, was born on the 23d of 
February, 1632-3, whether at Brampton or in London can- 
not be decided, both places having been claimed with equal 
confidence by his biographers.t From allusions in the 
Diary, he seems to have been well acquainted with the 
metropolis and its environs in his earliest childhood: but 
he received the first rudiments of education at Huntingdon 
previously to his admission into St. Paul’s School, where he 
continued till 1650, early in which year his name occurs as a 
Sizar on the boards of Trinity College, Cambridge. But before 
his academical residence commenced, March 5th, 1650-1, he 
had removed to Magdalene College, where he was elected into 
one of Mr. Spendluffe’s scholarships the next month; 
and, in 1651, preferred to one of Dr. Smith’s foundation. 

How long Pepys continued at Cambridge, or what profi- 
ciency he made, we are not informed. The only notice of 


*S. Knight, who wrote The Life of Dean Colet, and was related te 
Pepys, says Brampton positively. See Pedigree, in vol. iv. 


SAMUEL PEPYS xi 


him that has been discovered is subjoined, and is more 
creditable to the discipline of the college than to our young 
student. On December 1, 1655, he married Elizabeth St. 
Michel,” a native of Somersetshire, of whom it is recorded, 
on her monument, that her father was of a good family, 
and her mother descended from the Cliffords of Cumber- 
land, though there is no evidence whatever to support the 
assumption. 

The best account of Mrs. Pepys’s parentage is contained 
in a letter from Balthazar St. Michel to Pepys, 8th 
February, 1673-4, on the subject of his deceased sister’s 
religious tenets. We learn from this paper that they were 
the grandchildren of the High Sheriff of Anjou in France, 
all of whose family were rigid Papists, and who disinherited 
his son, then in the German military service, and about 
twenty-one years of age, upon hearing of his having been 
converted to Protestantism, and persuaded his brother, a rich 
French Chanoine, to alter the disposition that he had made 
in favour of his nephew. The youth being thus deprived 
of any fortune, came over to England as gentleman-carver 


1October 21, 1653. “Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were 
solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for haying been scanda- 
lously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done in the 
presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill’s chamber.—Joun 
Woop, Registrar.” (From the Registrar’s-book of Magdalene College.) 

2The following entry of Pepys’s marriage is extracted from the regis- 
ter of St. Margaret’s, and noticed in the second edition of Walcott’s 
Memorials of Westminster, Appendix, p. 30,—“ Samuell Peps of this 
parish, Gent., and Elizabeth Marchant, de Sxt Michell, of Martins-in- 
the-ffeilds, Spinster, were published October 19, 22, 29, and were married 
by Richard Sherwyn, Esqr., one of the Justices of the Peace for the 
Cittie and Lyberties of Westminster, December Ist, 1655. R. V. 
Sherwyn.” Communicated by the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, Curate of 
the parish. It is notorious that the registers in those times were very 
ill kept, of which we have here a striking instance. Pepys was in the 
habit of annually celebrating his wedding-day on the 10th of October, 
whereas the entry records the bans to have been published on the 19th, 
22d, and 29th of October, and the wedding as having taken place the 
Ist of December. Surely a man who kept a Diary could not have made 
such a blunder. 

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to Queen Henrietta Maria, from which office he was dis- 
missed for striking a friar, who had rebuked him for absent- 
ing himself from mass. He shortly after married the 
widow of an Irish esquire, described as the daughter of Sir 
Francis Kingsmill; and he seems to have resided with his 
wife at or near Bideford, in Somersetshire, which, according 
to Mrs. Pepys’s monumental inscription in Appendix G, 
was her native place. At a later period, St. Michel served 
against the Spaniards, at the taking of Dunkirk and Arras; 
and settling at Paris in indigent circumstances, he was ex- 
posed to new difficulties: for during his absence from home, 
some “deluding Papists” and “pretended devouts” (as 
the young Balthazar describes them), having promised to 
provide for the family, inveigled his wife and two children 
into a Roman Catholic establishment, whence the future 
Mrs. Pepys, then only twelve or thirteen years old, and 
“extreme handsome,” was removed into “The Ursulines,”’ 
then considered the strictest convent in Paris. They were, 
however, all rescued by Mr. St. Michel, who was almost 
distracted at what had occurred, and removed his family 
to England, where his daughter’s marriage took place, 
though we are not told how she became acquainted with 
Pepys. 

As the young lady had only just quitted a convent, at 
the early age of fifteen, and brought her husband no for- 
ture, the youthful pair were doubtless glad to find an asy- | 
lum in the family of Pepys’s cousin, Sir Edward Montagu, 
afterwards the first Earl of Sandwich, to whose good offices 
at this juncture, and continued friendship, he owed and 
gratefully acknowledged his subsequent advancement. Of the 
exact situation which he filled whilst under the roof of his 
powerful relative no mention is made. We only know that 
he underwent an operation for the stone on the 16th of 
March, 1658, with so much success, that he for many years 
celebrated the anniversary of his deliverance with a becom- 


SAMUEL PEPYS Xill 


ing sense of the Divine mercy extended to him. Shortly 
after his recovery, he attended Sir Edward Montagu upon 
his expedition to the Sound, and at their return was em- 
ployed as a clerk, under Mr. George Downing, created a 
Baronet at the Restoration, in some office in the Exchequer, 
connected with the pay of the Army. 

About this time, he began to keep a Diary, which is con- 
tinued uninterruptedly from the first entry, 1 January, 
1659-60, for above nine years, when he was obliged, from 
defective vision, to discontinue this daily task. As he 
availed himself of his facility in writing shorthand, he was 
enabled safely to record his most secret thoughts, and to 
note down his memoranda with clearness and despatch. 
The Cipher employed by him greatly resembles that known 


> which, within the memory 


by the name of “Rich’s System,’ 
of man, could have been easily made out by many persons, 
as it had formed part of the regular course of instruction 
required in the Nonconformists’ academies, to enable the stu- 
dents to make notes of lectures and sermons. A more inte- 
resting moment for the commencement of a journal could not 
well have been selected, as we are at once introduced to the 
most minute and circumstantial details of the exciting events 
preceding the Restoration. And, as our author was soon 
after appointed secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet, 
and went to Scheveling on board the flag-ship of his patron, 
Sir Edward Montagu, to bring home Charles II., every 
occurrence is related in connexion with that memorable ex- 
pedition. It was natural to suppose that, while his Kins- 
man, who had acted so conspicuous a part in restoring the 
monarchy, was rewarded with an Earldom, and made 
Keeper of the Great Wardrobe and Clerk of the Privy Seal, 
his confidential servant would not long remain unemployed. 
Accordingly, we find Pepys in the following summer nomi- 
nated Clerk of the Acts of the Navy: and he entered upon 
his new duties early in June, 1660, at which time he went to 


XIV LIFE OF 


reside in a house belonging to the Navy Office in Seething 
Lane, in the parish of St. Olave, Hart Street. From this 
moment, his natural talents for business seem to have deve- 
loped themselves; and his zeal and industry soon acquired 
for him respect from his brother officers, and the esteem of 
the Duke of York, with whom, as Lord High Admiral, he 
had constant intercourse till the Revolution. 

It could not be expected that, in so licentious an age, 
when love of pleasure was the order of the day, the new 
Clerk of the Acts should have been so completely absorbed 
by his official labours as to take no interest in the scenes of 
dissipation which surrounded him. His first object, how- 
ever, was to discharge his official duties: and, when we ob- 
serve the many hours which he devoted to the theatre, and 
to every sort of amusement, it becomes matter of astonish- 
ment how he could have found leisure to despatch so much 
business, and to make copies of the voluminous papers con- 
nected with the Navy. They afford the best proof that he 
laboured incessantly for the good of the service, and endea- 
voured to check the rapacity of the Contractors, by whom 
the naval stores were then supplied, and to establish such 
regulations in the Dockyards as might ensure order and 
economy. He also strenuously advocated the promotion of 
the old established Officers of the Navy, striving to counteract 
the undue influence exercised by the Court minions, which 
too often prevailed in that unprincipled government over 
every claim of merit or service; and he discountenanced 
the open system of selling places, practised in every depart- 
ment of the State, in the most unblushing manner. 

The Dutch war, which broke out in 1664, stimulated Pepys 
to still further exertions, as all the naval energies of the 
nation were necessarily called into action; and, during the 
Plague of 1665, when the metropolis was deserted, and every 
branch of the service completely abandoned, the whole ma- 
nagement of the concerns of the Navy devolved upon him 


SAMUEL PEPYS XV 


and he remained at his post, regardless of the dangers which 
environed him. “The sickness in general thickens round 
us, and particularly upon our neighborhood,” observes 
Pepys, in writing to Sir W. Coventry at this juncture. 
“You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must not, there- 
fore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence.” 

He soon afterwards succeeded Mr. Thomas Povy as 
Treasurer to the Commissioners for the affairs of Tangier, 
and Surveyor-general of the Victualling departments; which 
last office he resigned when the peace was concluded. 

During the Fire of London, respecting which so much is 
said in these pages, Pepys rendered the most essential ser- 
vice, by sending up the artificers from the Dockyards, who 
adopted the plan of blowing up houses, and arrested the 
progress of the flames. We come next to De Ruyter’s 
memorable enterprise against Chatham, the details of which 
will be found highly interesting. ‘ The loss to the English,” 
observes Lingard,’ “if we consider the force of the enemy, 
and the defenceless state of the river, was much less than 
might have been apprehended, but the disgrace sunk 
deep into the hearts of the King and of his subjects. That 
England, so lately the mistress of the ocean, should be un- 
able to meet her enemies at sea, and that the Dutch, whom 
she had so often defeated, should ride triumphant in her 
rivers, burn her ships, and scatter dismay through the capital 
and the country, were universally subjects of grief and in- 
dignation.” 

No wonder, then, that a Parliamentary inquiry was in- 
sisted upon, in order that the authors of the alleged mis- 
carriages might be brought to condign punishment. And 
in this spirit the Officers of the Navy Board were, on 
the 5th of March, 1668, summoned to the Bar of the 
House of Commons to answer for their faults, in the full 

* History of England. 


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XV1 LIFE OF 


expectation of losing their places, though the difficulties 
with which they had been beset were in fact insurmountable. 
The debts of the Office exceeded 900,0001., its credit was 
gone, the sailors refused to serve, the labourers to work, the 
merchants to sell without immediate payment, and to procure 
money from the Treasury or from the Bankers was impos- 
sible.t To crown the whole, the King had been driven, by 
pecuniary distress, reluctantly to sanction the absurd mea- 
sure of not fitting out a fleet at a moment when it was 
most required. Such were the unpropitious circumstances 
under which Pepys and his colleagues appeared before their 
Masters at Westminster (as he quaintly called them), and 
when he was selected to conduct their defence, and after 
speaking for three hours, so far succeeded in removing the 
prejudice against the Officers of the Navy Board, that 
no further proceedings were taken in Parliament on the 
subject. 

The compliments which Pepys received from so many 
different quarters upon this unexpected display of eloquence 
must have been highly flattering, and the particulars are 
too minutely detailed in the Diary to leave any doubt on 
the subject. Still, it does not appear that he ever after- 
wards rose to distinction as a Parliamentary Speaker, 
though he sat for many years in the House of Commons,” and 
occasionally took part in the debates. In the following 
summer our author was obliged to discontinue his Diary, 
owing to the increasing weakness of his eyes, which had 
long being impaired by his incessant correspondence, and 
the use of shorthand; but, although he was apprehensive of 
entirely losing his sight, the disorder does not seem to have 
gained ground during the remainder of his long life. At 


* Lingard. 
He had served once for Castle Rising, and represented Harwich in 


two parliaments, and made his election for that place in 1685, when he 
was also chosen for Sandwich. 


SAMUEL PEPYS Xvil 


all events, some relaxation from business had become neces- 
sary, after nine years’ uninterrupted labour: Pepys accord- 
ingly obtained a few months’ leave of absence, which enabled 
him to make a tour through France and Holland, accompa- 
nied by his wife. Upon this excursion he often dwells with 
pleasure in his Correspondence; and he appears from one 
of his letters to Charles II., to have occupied himself while 
abroad in making collections respecting the French and 
Dutch Navy; so anxious was he at all times to improve his 
knowledge of nautical affairs, and to acquire useful infor- 
mation connected with his favourite employments. 

Shortly after his return home, he had the misfortune to 
lose his wife, who died at his house in Hart Street, on the 
10th of November, 1669, leaving him no issue. She had 
been ill only a few days, though her delicate state of health 
is often alluded to in the Diary. Previously to her death, 
she, with her husband, received the Sacrament from Dr. 
Milles, the rector of the parish; thus, in her last moments, 
removing the fears which he had long entertained of her 
being disposed to the Roman Catholic faith. 

This melancholy event prevented Pepys from attending 
the ensuing election at Aldborough, in Suffolk, for which 
borough he had been proposed as a candidate, in lieu of 
Sir Robert Brookes,’ lately deceased; but his friends exerted 
themselves to the utmost to procure his election. His cause 
was also openly and warmly espoused by the Duke of York 
and Lord Henry Howard;* but all their efforts failed, and 


1Sir Robert Brookes, Lord of the Manor of Wanstead, from 1662 to 
1667; M.P. for Aldborough in Suffolk. He afterwards retired to 
France, in bad circumstances, and from a letter among the Pepys MSS., 
appears to have been drowned in the river at Lyons. 


?Second son of Henry Earl of Arundel: in 1669, created Baron 
Howard, of Castle Rising; and, in 1672, advanced to the Earldom of 
Norwich. Upon the death of his elder brother Thomas, s. p., in 1677, 
he became the sixth Duke of Norfolk. He was a great benefactor to 
the Royal Society, and presented the Arundel Marbles to the University 
of Oxford. Ob. January, 1683-4. 


XViil LIFE OF 


the contest ended in favour of the popular party. In 
January, 1673, Pepys was chosen burgess for Castle Rising,* 
on Sir Robert Paston’s? elevation to the Peerage; but his 
unsuccessful opponent, Mr. Offley, petitioning against the 
return, the election was determined to be void by the Com- 
mittee of Privileges. The Parliament, however, being pro- 
rogued the following month, without the House’s coming to 
any vote on the subject, Pepys was permitted to retain his 
seat.° The grounds upon which the Committee decided do 


1Pepys’s papers relating to the Castle Rising Election are in Rawlin- 
son, A. 172. 


?Sir Robert Paston was created Baron and Viscount Yarmouth in 
1673, and advanced to the Earldom by the same title in 1679. The 
honours all became extinct on the death of his son, William, the 
second Peer, circiter 1733. See vol. iv., p. 203. 


8“ The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election 
for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did,. in the first 
place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. Pepys. 
Information being given to the House that they had received an account 
from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a Crucifix upon it, 
in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up in his place, did 
heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any Altar or Crucifix, or the 
image or picture of any Saint whatsoever in his house, from the top to 
the bottom of it; and the Members being called upon to name the 
person that gave them the information, they were unwilling to declare 
it without the order of the House; which, being made, they named the 
Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House being also informed that Sir J. 
Banks did likewise see the Altar, he was ordered to attend the Bar of 
the House, to declare what he knew of this matter. ‘Ordered that Sir 
William Coventry, Sir Thomas Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend 
Lord Shaftesbury on the like occasion, and receive what information his 
Lordship can give on this matter.”—Journals of the House of Commons, 
vol. ix., p. 306.——* 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they 
attended the Earl of Shaftesbury and received from him the account 
which they had put in writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that 
he ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys’s house or lodgings; as to the 
Crucifix, he saith he hath some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat 
which he conceived to be a Crucifix. When his Lordship was asked 
the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the Navy. 
Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not remember 
whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the thing was; 
and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if he were upon 
his oath he could give no testimony.”—ZIbid., vol. ix. p. 309 “16th 


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not appear; but the proceedings of the House on the sub- 
ject, as entered on the Journals, are given in the note 
below. They exhibit a striking and most disgusting picture 
of the spirit of those times. It was charged against Pepys, 


that a crucifix had been seen in his house, from which it 
‘ 


was inferred that he was “a Papist, or Popishly inclined ;” 


and this vague suspicion, not of a man’s actions, but of his 
belief or his inclinations, was deemed by the House the first 
subject to be inquired into in the adjudication of a contro- 
verted election. From the result, however, of this examination, 
neither the fact nor the inference received the smallest sup- 
port. They had been grounded on the reported assertions 
of Sir John Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Banks 
explicitly denied the whole. Shaftesbury’s evidence I for- 
bear to characterize: such as it is, the reader may see it in 
the note. Painful, indeed, is it to reflect to what lengths 
the bad passions which party violence inflames could in 
those days carry a man of Shaftesbury’s rank, station, and 
abilities. We also collect from Cole’s MS. Athene Can- 
tabrigienses,* that, some years afterwards, Shaftesbury, in 
his eagerness to fix the odium of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey’s 
murder* upon the Roman Catholics, threatened the prin- 


February—Sir John Banks was called in—The Speaker desired him to 
answer what acquaintance he had with Mr. Pepys, and whether he used 
to have recourse to him to his house, and had ever seen there any Altar 
or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his being a Papist, or Popishly 
inclined. Sir J. Banks said that he had known and had been acquainted 
with Mr. Pepys several years, and had often visited him and conversed 
with him at the Navy Office, and at his house there upon several occa- 
sions; and that he never saw in his house there any Altar or Crucifix, 
and that he does not believe him to be a Papist, or that way inclined in 
the least, nor had any reason or ground to think or believe it.”—IJbid., 
vol. ix., p. 310. 

1JIn the British Museum. 

?The attempt to connect Pepys with the murder of Sir Edmund 
Bury Godfrey, by bringing his clerk, Samuel Atkins, to trial, and 
thereby to implicate the Duke of York, is noticed in North’s Examen, 
p- 284. In the same passage, Pepys, in 1678, though then only forty- 
five years of age, is described as an “elderly gentleman, who had known 


>. .8 LIFE OF 


cipal witness examined during that inquiry with the utmost 
rigour, in case she refused to say that Sir John Banks, 
Mr. Pepys, and Monsieur de Puy,’ a servant of the Duke of 
York’s, had obliged her to depose to the fact of Godfrey’s 
having destroyed himself. 

A fact of the same character, but of a still deeper hue, is 
told by an unexceptionable witness. Burnet was among the 
warmest and ablest antagonists of the Church of Rome; and 
he was also, in his general opinions, an adherent of the 
same political party to which Shaftesbury belonged: but, 
when he relates the detestable imposture of the Popish plot, 
he bears against that great promoter of those proceedings 
an honest and memorable testimény. He is speaking of the 
persecution of Staley, the first victim of those horrid per- 
juries. ‘ When I heard,” he says, “who the witnesses 
were, I thought I was bound to do what I could to stop it; 
so I sent both to the Lord Chancellor and to the Attorney- 
General, to let them know what profligate wretches these 
witnesses were. Jones, the Attorney-General, took it ill of 
me that I should disparage the King’s evidence.” He then 
speaks of the clamour raised on this occasion against him- 
self, and adds, ‘I had likewise observed, to several persons 
of weight, how many ineredible things there were in the 
evidence that was given. I wished they would make use of 
the heat the nation was in to secure us effectually from 
Popery: we saw certain evidence to carry us so far as to 
graft that upon it;* but I wished they would not run 


softness and the pleasures of life.’ The proceedings against Atkins are 
fearful; the Spanish Inquisition could not have been a more wicked 
tribunal. For an account of Atkins’s Case and other documents about 
Sir E. B. Godfrey’s murder, see Rawlinson, A. 173. 


*-Yeoman of the Robes to the Duke of York, with a salary of 601. 


? He here alludes, probably, to the projected exclusion of the Duke 
of York from the throne, a measure for which abundant cause has been 
given. The only real Popish Plot was the plot of the King and his 
brother. They, and not the wretched victims in this persecution, had 
conspired with France, to subvert the religion and liberties of a people, 


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too hastily to the taking men’s lives away upon such 
testimonies. Lord Hollis had more temper than I ex- 
pected from a man of his heat. Lord Halifax was of the 
same mind. But the Earl of Shaftesbury could not 
bear the discourse: he said, ‘ We must support the evidence, 
and that all those who undermined the credit of the wit- 
nesses were to be looked on as public enemies.’’* This 
passage requires no comment. The charge against Pepys 
was in truth a heavy one—that of hypocrisy and dissimula- 
tion in matters of religion: it is sufficiently refuted by this 
view of the principles and conduct of him who was the 
chief instigator, as well as the chief witness in the case; but 
with respect to the religion of Pepys, these volumes supply 
conclusive information. He was educated in the pure and 
reformed faith of the Church of England. To that he ad- 
hered through life, and in that he died. In some of the 
earliest pages of his Diary, how interesting are the accounts 
of his attendance on the worship of that Church, when her 
rites were administered to a scattered flock by a few faithful 
and courageous men, who met for that purpose in secret 
and in danger, like the Fathers of the primitive Church 
under the tyranny of their heathen persecutors! After the 
Restoration, the confidential servant of the Duke of York, 
and the Secretary to the Admiralty to Charles the Second 
and James the Second, saw, undoubtedly, how much his 
temporal interests would be promoted by his conversion 
to that faith which both those Princes had embraced, and 
for the propagation of which the last of them, his imme- 
diate patron, manifested such a bigoted and fanatical en- 
thusiasm. But there is no reason for believing that any 
such temptation ever entered into his mind; or, if it did, 
the reader will see, in the close of this Memoir, the 


to whose ill-requited loyalty they had been so recently and so largely 
indebted. 


*Burnet. History of His Own Time, 1678, 


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most satisfactory proofs that it was steadily and success- 
fully resisted. 

Upon the death of Sir Thomas Page, Provost of King’s 
College, in August, 1681,’ Pepys was recommended by his 
friend, Mr. S. Maryon, Fellow of Clare Hall, to apply to the 
King for the appointment, being assured that the Royal 
Mandate, if obtained, would secure his election. Nothing 
further seems, however, to have been done in the matter, 
beyond Pepys writing to explain that he would only accept 
the office on the condition of his employing his retirement 
in putting together the Collections which he had been so 
long engaged in arranging connected with Naval Subjects, 
for the use of the public; and he added that the profits of 
the Provostship during the first year, computed at 70OI. 
and not less than a full half in each succeeding year, should, 
in the event of his appointment, be dedicated to the gene- 
ral use and advantage of the College.” 

In the summer of 1673, the Duke of York having re- 
signed all his employments upon the passing of the Test Act, 
his Majesty called Pepys into his own service, as Secretary 
for the affairs of the Navy, and he had sufficient interest 
to procure the joint appointment of Clerk of the Acts for 
Thomas Hayter, who had been for many years his confi- 
dential Clerk, and John Pepys, his only surviving brother, 
who held the place till his death, in 1677.° The Secretary 
to the Navy acquired additional credit in his new station; 
but it did not prove a bed of roses, for he once more ex- 
cited the envy and malice of his enemies, who lost no 
opportunity of revenging themselves upon the Duke of 
York, by directing their attacks against all his dependents. 
Accordingly, during the turbulent juncture of the Popish 
Plot, complaints having been made in the House of Com- 


1Bentley’s Pepys Correspondence, vol. i. pp. 265—272. 
? John Coplestone was made Provost. He died in 1689. 
® See the King’s warrant in Rawlinson, A. 180, fol. 189, 


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mons of various miscarriages in the Navy, a Committee 
was appointed to inquire into the circumstances, in which 
Mr. Harbord,’ Burgess for Thetford, took the lead against 
Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane.? They were accused, on the 
depositions of Colonel John Scott and others, of sending 
secret particulars respecting the English Navy to the French 
government, in order to assist in the design of dethroning 
the King and extirpating the Protestant religion; and 
Pepys was again charged with being a Roman Catholic, 
and a great favourer of that party. They were committed 
to the Tower, under the Speaker’s warrant, May 22d, 1679. 
On the 2nd of June, both prisoners were brought to the Bar 
of the King’s Bench, when bail being denied them, their 
counsel pressed for a speedy trial, which the Attorney- 


* William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, 2nd son of Sir Charles 
Harbord, Surveyor-General; he was twice married, but died at Belgrade, 
in July, 1692, s. p.m. Harbord’s papers about the Naval Miscarriages 
and Pepys’s replies are in Rawlinson, A. 181. Judging from the number 
of these documents, it must have given Pepys the greatest trouble and 
uneasiness. Amongst other things there are the original papers found 
in Scott’s closet at his lodging in Canning Street, after his flight, as well 
as the following memorandum:—* That about the time of Mr. Pepys’s 
surrender of his employment of Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. 
Russell and myself being in discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell 
delivered himself in these or other words to this purport:—That he 
thought it might be of advantage to both, if a good understanding were 
had between his brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose 
it to Mr. Pepys, and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and 
went immediately from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this dis- 
course, he gave me readily this answer in these very words:—That he 
knew of no service Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he 
should be the last man in England he would receive any from.” 


?For notices of the charges against Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane, 
see Harris’s Charles the Second, vol. ii. pp. 237-239; and Grey’s 
Debates, vol. vii, pp. 303-315. In Rawlinson, A 173, fol. 180, is the 
following MS. :—“ Plane Truth, or Closet Discorce betwixt Pepys and 
Hewers.” The orthography is wretched, and would seem to be in the 
writing of James, the butler, as it immediately follows his Charge. 
There is a printed copy of a pamphlet with a similar title in the Library 
of the Corporation of London. It possesses no sort of merit, but for 
scurrility could not be surpassed. See vol. iv., p. 59, note 2. 


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General refused, upon the ground that he expected more 
evidence of their treasonable correspondence with France. 
They were then remanded to the Tower, and after being 
brought up a second and third time, allowed to find security 
in 30,0001.; and though they subsequently appeared in 
Court four times more, the trial was always postponed upon 
the same plea.* At length, on February 12th, 1679-80, 
they moved by counsel to be discharged; and, on the At- 
torney-General’s stating that Scott now refused to acknow- 
ledge the truth of his original deposition, upon which the 
whole charge rested, the prisoners were relieved from their 
bail, and their motion was acceded to on the first day of 
the next term, with the consent of the Law Officers of 
the Crown. 

It is, indeed, difficult to recur to such unjust and arbi- 
trary proceedings without disgust, but the accusation being 
so serious, it seems due to the characters of the parties 
suspected to examine the allegations closer. On reference 
to the papers still extant, in which the whole case is de- 
tailed, it appears that numerous affidavits were made by 
persons resident in France, Holland, America, and England, 
all agreeing as to the infamy of Scott’s character. We are 
also informed, in the Correspondence, that he was after- 
wards obliged to quit the country precipitately, having 
killed a coachman in a fray, for which offence he was out- 
lawed. It is farther stated, that a principal witness against 
Pepys, named James,’ formerly his butler, had deposed be- 
fore the Committee to his master’s being a Roman Catholic; 
and that Morelli, who lived with him, though engaged 
under pretence of teaching him music, was a priest in 


1See Appendix M. 


? John James, of Glentworth, co. Lincoln. He had been servant to 
Sir William Coventry, and was recommended to Pepys by Sir R. 
Mason. See James’s evidence against Pepys in Grey’s Debates, vol. 
vil, p. 304. 


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disguise." But, on his own apprehension, James confessed 
that he had invented the whole story, at the instigation of 
Mr. Harbord, who had held out promises and rewards to him, 
through Colonel Mansell and Mr. Alexander Harris: and 
he swore to this recantation before several witnesses. In 
addition to these exculpatory facts, we have the testimony 
of Evelyn, who mentions in his Diary (4th June, 1679,) 
that he dined with Pepys, then a prisoner in the Tower, 
and believed him to be unjustly accused. 

In the mean time, Charles II. again changed the con- 
stitution of the Admiralty; owing to which arrangement, 
the nation lost the benefit of Pepys’s services therein; but 
he had the honour of attending his Royal Master for ten 
days at Newmarket, in October, 1680, on which occasion 
he took down in shorthand, from the King’s own mouth, 
the Narrative, since frequently published, of Charles’s 
escape, after the battle of Worcester. 

In September, 1683, Pepys was again brought into no- 
tice, having received the King’s commands to accompany 
Lord Dartmouth on the expedition for demolishing Tan- 


gier.” Upon this occasion, he so far resumed the use of 


*When the charges against Pepys were being debated in the Com- 
mons, Sir Francis Role sarcastically remarked, that “ Pepys has been 
very unfortunate in his servants: one accused to be in the plot (Atkins, 
his Secretary); another, his best maid, found in bed with his butler; 
another accused to be a Jesuit! Very unfortunate!” To which Pepys 
replied, “ All know I am unfortunate in my servants, but I hope that it 
is no crime to be so. I have not taken servants at haphazard. I have 
bond for James, and a recommendation of Morelli. That I am unfor- 
tunate is my misfortune.”—Grey’s Debates, vol. vii. p. 310. 


? The following letter of credit from Mr. Houblon at this juncture, in 
Pepys’s behalf, shows the estimation in which he was held by his 


friends :— 
London, August 8, 1683. 
Mr. Richard Gough—This goes by my deare friend Mr. Pepys, who 
is embarked on board the Grafton man-of-war, commanded by our 
Lord Dartmouth, who is Admiral of the King’s Fleet for this Expedi- 
tion. If Mr. Pepys’s occasions draw him to Cadiz, you know what love 
and respect I bear him, so that I need not use arguments with you for 


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shorthand as to make some meagre notes respecting the 
voyage, and the destruction of the Mole, which were de- 
ciphered and published, in 1841, from the MS. in the 
Bodleian Library. These memoranda, however, are not 
to be compared in interest with any part of the Original 
Diary; still we cannot but regret that, as Pepys’s eyesight 
must have been improved, he did not resume his former 
occupation as a journalist. During his absence from Eng- 
land, he took the opportunity of making excursions into 
Spain, as he had formerly done into France, Flanders, 
Holland, Sweden, and Denmark; not to mention his lesser 
voyages with the Duke of York, and especially one to 
Scotland in the preceding year, during which he had the 
good fortune to be on board his own yacht,’ when the 
Gloucester was lost, and the Duke and a small number only 
of that ship’s company were saved. 

From the Tangier expedition Pepys returned the follow- 
ing Spring; and the King having himself resumed the office 
of High Admiral, he was “ by the Royal commands, neither 
sought for nor foreseen, but brought to him expressly by 
Lord Dartmouth from Windsor,”” constituted Secretary for 
the affairs of the Admiralty, with a salary of 5001. per 
annum, in which office he continued during the remainder 
of the reign, and the whole of that of his successor, whose 
confidence he had so long and so deservedly enjoyed;? so 


to serve him there, which I am sure you will do to the utmost of your 
power. And wherein you find yourself deficient either for want of 
language or knowing the country, oblige your friends to help you, that 
he may have all the pleasure and divertisement there that Cales can 
afford him. And if his occasions require any money, you will furnish 
him what he desires, placing it to my account. I shall write you per 
next post concerning other matters. I am, your loving friend, 
James Hovusion. 

—Rawlinson, MS. 


1The Catherine. See Correspondence. 
?Pepys’s own words in speaking of the transaction. 


PrAy deter) from.) to John Ellis, Secretary to the Irish Revenue, 


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much so, that the curious circumstance respecting Charles’s 
becoming a Roman Catholic on his death-bed, related by 
Evelyn, (Diary, 2nd October, 1685,) rests chiefly upon the 
authority of Pepys, to whom James himself had communi- 
cated all the particulars. We are also told, that when that 
Monarch was sitting to Kneller for his picture,’ intended 
as a present to the Secretary, news coming of the Prince of 
Orange having landed, the King, with the utmost com- 
posure, desired the painter to proceed and finish the por- 
trait, that his good friend might not be disappointed. 

The naval history of the period, from Pepys’s committal 
to the Tower to the Abdication of James II., and the part 
borne by him therein, will be found fully and elegantly de- 
tailed in his Memoirs, published in 1690, which the reader 
may consult for his more ample satisfaction.” From this 
little tract, as well as many passages in the Diary, it may 
be seen how erroneously the merit of renovating the navy 


has been assigned to James II. by his biographers. Dr. 


dated London, 6th April, 1686, and printed in the Second Series of Sir 
H. Ellis’s Correspondence, vol. iv., p. 91, is not very complimentary to 
Pepys or his friend Hewer. The writer, in speaking of an application 
for some naval promotion, says, “ Pepys would value Lord Ossory’s 
recommendation at no mean rate, though Eure and he together neglect 
all where money chinks not.” Sir Henry Ellis quotes also the follow- 
ing passage from another letter in the same volume (British Museum, 
MS. Donat., p. 35), dated London, 10th April, 1686.—“I shall urge 
your monkish brother all I can, and imagine his personal interest in 
wae will do. He tells me he discoursed Pepys about the matter, who 
told him all was settled. I know the griping character of both him and 
Eure, and what rates every poor boson (boatswain) pays for what he 
has purchased with his blood, and many years’ hardships.” 


1Lately in the possession of the Cockerell family, and engraved by 
Vertue. 


* There is a small book in the Pepysian Library, entitled, 4 Relation 
of the Troubles in the Court of Portugal in 1667 and 8, by S. P. Esq™., 
London, 1677, 12mo.; of which Watt states Pepys to have been the 
author.—See Biblio. Britan. It seems to be a translation of a work in 
the King’s Library, B.M., called “ Relation des Troubles arrivez dans la 
Cour de Portugal en 1667-68, par Blouin de la Piquetierre,” Amsterdam, 
1674. 12mo. 

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Stamer Clarke,’ in particular, dwells upon the essential and 
lasting benefit which that Monarch conferred on his country, 
by building up and regenerating the Naval Power; and asserts, 
as a proof of the King’s great ability, that the regulations still 
enforced under the orders of the Admiralty are nearly the same 
as those originally drawn up by him. It becomes due there- 
fore to Pepys’s memory to explain that, for these improve- 
ments, the value of which are unquestionable, we are in- 
debted to him, and not to his Royal Master. To establish 
this fact, it is only necessary to refer to the MSS. connected 
with the subject, in the Bodleian and Pepysian Libraries, 
by which the extent of Pepys’s official labours can alone be 
appreciated; and we even find in the Diary,’ that a long 
letter of regulation, produced before the Commissioners of 
the Navy by the Duke of York, in 1668, as his own compo- 
sition, was entirely written by the Clerk of the Acts. 

Upon the accession of William and Mary, Pepys lost his 
official employments; and the Electors of Harwich, unmind- 
ful of his services in former Parliaments, and naturally 
jealous of his attachment to the exiled Monarch, refused, 
after a slight struggle, to return him to the Convention. 
He retired consequently into private life, trusting that he 
should be allowed to end his days in tranquillity, and the 
enjoyment of literary society, for which his various acquire- 
ments so peculiarly qualified him. Nevertheless, he was 
soon again disturbed by the virulence of his enemies, who, 
in June, 1690, procured his committal to the Gatehouse,* 
upon pretence of his being still too well affected to the ex- 


1See Memoirs of James II. 
2See Diary, July and August, 1668, passim, for the particulars. 


’The Gate-house was a prison in Westminster, near to the western 
entrance to the Abbey from Tothill Street. It belonged to the Dean 
and Chapter, and was by their orders puiled down in 1776, being in a 
ruinous condition. Many considerable persons had been, from the 
earliest times, confined there.—See Walcott’s Westminster, pp. 273, 274. 


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iled King; but he shortly obtained leave, on account of ill 
health, to return to his own house, and there is no farther 
mention of the charge; though, even in 1692, he appre- 
hended some fresh persecution, being obliged (as he himself 
observes) to enjoy his otiwm without the company of more 
of his books and papers than he was willing should be visited 
and disturbed. Owing to this precaution, the large portion 
of original Pepys MSS. which remained in York Buildings 
were ultimately lost to Magdalene College, Cambridge, 
never having passed into the hands of Mr. Jackson, who 
had a life interest in all his Uncle’s Collections. What be- 
came of these literary treasures during the interval is not 
known, but eventually, Dr. Rawlinson obtained them, as he 
said, “* Thus et odores vendentibus,” and they were included 
in the bequest of his books to the Bodleian Library. They 
are comprised in about fifty volumes, and relate principally 
to Naval affairs; but though they have lately been carefully 
examined, nothing of much value was elicited. A few of 
the most interesting letters are, indeed, inserted in the 
Correspondence, in addition to those previously printed, 
and some notes illustrating doubtful passages in the Me- 
moirs have been gleaned from the perusal of the different 
MSS. 

The Books in the Pepysian Library still look well, having 
been constantly guarded from dust, and, with a few excep- 
tions, in morocco and vellum, are in uniform calf binding. 
They all bear Pepys’s Coat of Arms on their boards, on the 
first of which are the Two Anchors of the Admiralty 
crossed behind a Shield, inscribed SAM PEPYS CAR ET 
JAC ANGL REGIB A SECRETIS ADMIRALLX. 
The Shield is surmounted by his Crest. On the last board 
are his Arms and his Motto— 


MENS CUJUSQUE IS EST QUISQUE. 


Within the title on the back is his portrait, by R. White, 


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after Kneller, with his name and description above, and the 
motto below.* 

Pepys seems to have been fond of sitting for his picture 
from the commencement of his official career, and there are 
several portraits of him extant. Amongst these may be 
mentioned two at Magdalene College, and one, by Kneller, 
still in the possession of the Royal Society, to whom Pepys 
presented it when their President. Another picture of 
him, by the same master, was sold at the Cockerell auction 
in 1849. There are also several engravings taken from 
these portraits, besides those given in the different editions 
of the Memoirs. 

We are assured, that, notwithstanding political prejudices 
and the bitterness of party spirit, Pepys was very generally 
consulted up to the time of his death, and looked upon as 
an oracle in all matters concerning the Navy; and, as far 
as the difficulties of the times allowed him opportunity, he 
continued uniformly anxious to point out any improvement 
likely to benefit the service to which he had so long been an 
ornament. 

Nor were the leisure hours of his retirement spent in an 
useless manner, as he devoted himself to the restoration of 
the government of Christ’s Hospital to its pristine purity; 
and he succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the 
Mathematical Foundation there, which had been originally 
designed by him, and, through his anxious solicitations, 
endowed and cherished by his two Royal Masters. 

The estimation in which Pepys was held for his literary 


, attainments had raised him, in 1684, to the high station of 


me 


President of the Royal Society, which he filled durmg two 
years with credit and ability. After he had relinquished 
the office, he was in the habit of entertaining some of the 
most distinguished members of that learned body, on Satur- 


* Hartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge. 


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day evenings, in York Buildings, where they assembled for 
the discussion of literary subjects, and the encouragement 
of the liberal arts. To the dissolution of these meetings, 
occasioned by the increasing infirmities of their Founder, 
Evelyn adverts in his letters, in terms of the strongest re- 
gret: nor could a person of his enlightened mind fail to 
derive the most heartfelt gratification from witnessing so 
many of his contemporaries eagerly devoting the small rem- 
nant of their lives to the cultivation of science and the 
encouragement of useful knowledge. 

Another portion of his fruitful recess the Author of the 
Diary set apart for the arrangement of his extensive collec- 
tions, obtained, at an immense cost, for the general history 
of the Navalia of England, which he had promised to the 
public; but age and ill health intervening, he was deprived 
of the vigour and opportunities requisite for completing the 
work; and it remains a desideratum to this day. 

Of his munificence, as a patron of literature, the nume- 
rous books dedicated to Pepys furnish ample testimony ; 
and in the Preface to Willoughby’s Historia Pisctum, 1684, 
he is justly styled by Mr. Ray, “ Ingenuarum Artium, et 
Eruditorum Fautor et Patronus eximius,” as having con- 
tributed no fewer than sixty plates to that work. He was 
also a considerable benefactor to St. Paul’s School, and a 
subscriber to the New Court at Magdalene College. 

Of his tender affection to his parents, the Diary affords 
many instances: and his liberality, at a time when he was 
far from rich, in giving his sister, Mrs. Paulina Jackson, 
GOOl. as a marriage portion, is worthy of mention. Nor did 
his kindness to the family terminate here, as he took charge 
of her two sons, who were left orphans when children, and 
wholly unprovided for, and educated them at his own ex- 
pense. Samuel, the eldest, contracting extravagant habits 
early in life, and making a discreditable marriage, forfeited 
all claim to further favour nor is it known what became of 


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him, while his brother John lived to repay the kindness 
shown to him. After completing his studies at Magdalene 
College, he was sent, under the auspices of his uncle, to 
make a tour of Italy and Spain; and on his return, being 
received once more under his benefactor’s roof, ultimately 
inherited his property, as a reward for the attentions with 
which he had soothed his declining years. 

It may be right to notice, that Pepys was examined at 
the trial of the seven Bishops, on which occasion he deposed 
that he had been present at the Council when the prelates 
were committed; but his evidence, as to their delivering 
the petition to the King, was not conclusive. Between his 
attachment to the Protestant religion, and his fear of 
offending his Royal Master, he was doubtless very glad to 
make his escape from the witness-box, without being further 
questioned. 

Our author’s valuable life was now drawing gradually 
to a close. By the too continued exercises of his mind, 
without any consideration to his advanced age, he had 
destroyed his constitution, long before impaired by the 
stone. On this account, the physicians persuaded him, 
in 1700, to bid adieu to York Buildings, and retire, for the 
sake of change of air and repose, to the seat of his old 
friend and servant, William Hewer, at Clapham.’ Nor 
could a more eligible retreat have been selected, nor a 
kinder companion than that cherished individual, whose 
amiable qualities and disinterested gratitude to his patron, 
under circumstances of no common difficulty, entitle him to 
the highest commendaticn.” Here, also, Pepys still per- 


1There is a Report in one of Peere Williams’s volumes of the Pro- 
ceedings before the Court of Chancery, respecting the Will of Mr. Hewer, 
of Clapham, who died very rich. The case is “ Hewer v. Edgeley.” 


*Far different was the conduct of Josiah Burchett and James 
Southerne, who, rising, through Pepys’s interest, to high stations in the 
Admiralty, lived to forget their benefactor, and treat him with neglect 
and disrespect. 


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severed in the same studious occupations; and with the 
greater intenseness, as he was less exposed to interruption: 
the object of his removal was consequently frustrated, and 
he consummated the ruin of his health, and expired, after a 
lingering illness, May 26, 1703. 

Though he lived in an age when religious duties were too 
generally neglected, and even ridiculed, Pepys retained the 
habit, acquired in his earliest youth, of constantly attending 
the service of the Church of England, and was for many 
years a regular attendant at the Sacrament. Upon this 
subject, the Certificate which follows, copied from the original 
in the Bodleian Library, must not be omitted :— 


May 22, 1681. 


I, Daniel Milles, Doctor in Divinity, present (and for above twenty 
yeares last past) Rector of the parish of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, 
London, doe hereby certify that Samuel Pepys, Esq., some time one of 
the principall Officers and Commissioners of his Majestie’s Navy, and 
since Secretary of the Admiralty of England, became (with his family) 
an inhabitant of the said Parish, about the month of June, in the yeare 
of our Lord 1660, and so continued (without intermission) for the 
space of thirteen yeares—viz., untill about the same month in the yeare 
1673, when he was called thence to attend his Majesty in his said Secre- 
taryship: during all which time, the said Mr. Pepys and his whole 
family were constant attendants upon the public worship of God and 
his holy Ordinances, (under my ministration,) according to the Doctrine 
and Discipline of the Church of England, established by Law, without 
the least appearance or suggestion had of any inclination towards 
Popery, either in himself or any of his family; his Lady receiving the 
Holy Sacrament (in company with him, the said Mr. Pepys, her husband, 
and others) from my hand, according to the rites of the Church of 
England, upon her death-bed, few houres before her decease, in the 
yeare 1669, 

And I doe hereby further certify, that the said Mr. Pepys hath, from 
the determination of his said residence in this parish, continued to 
receive the Holy Communion with the inhabitants thereof, to this day; 
so that I verily believe, hee never failed, within the whole space of one 
and twenty yeares last past (viz., from June 1660,) to this instant 22d 
of May, (being Whitsunday in the same yeare 1681,) of communicating 
publickly in the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper with the inhabitants 
of the Parish, from my hand, at any of the solemn Feasts of Christmas, 
Easter, and Pentecost, (besides his frequent monthly communicatings 
therein,) saving on Whitsunday, 1679, when, being a prisoner in the 


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Tower, he appears to have received it in the publick Chappell theres 
and at Easter last, when, by a violent sickness, (which confined him te 
his bed,) he was, to my particular knowledge, rendered incapable of 
attending it. Witnesse my Hand, the day and the yeare above written. 
D. Mittes, D. D., Rectt of St Olave, 
Hart Street, Lond. 


It is further gratifying to be able to trace in the Corre- 
spondence, that, as Pepys advanced in years, he turned his 
mind more earnestly to serious thoughts, and devoutly 
prepared for the change which awaited him. Nor could 
the example of the virtuous Evelyn, whose friendship he 
had cultivated from their first acquaintance, have been 
useless or unprofitable, in this particular. The tranquillity 
of mind and pious resignation which he evinced on his 
death-bed, with some interesting details of his last illness, 
are best described in the following letters. 


Mr. Jackson* to Mr. Evelyn. 


Clapham, May 28th, 1703, 
Friday night. 
Honoured Sir, 
°Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the 
quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my~ Uncle 


1Communicated by the late Mr. William Upcott. It appears, from 
the Evelyn Papers, in the British Museum (bought at Mr. Upcott’s 
sale), that, in September, 1705, Mr. John Jackson made a proposal of 
marriage to one of Evelyn’s grand-daughters, through their common 
friend, William Hewer. The alliance was declined solely on account of 
Jackson’s being unable to make an adequate settlement on the young 
lady; whilst Evelyn (the draught of whose answer is preserved) cour- 
teously acknowledged the respect entertained by him for Pepys’s 
memory, and his sense of his nephew’s extraordinary accomplishments. 
Mr. Jackson married Anne, daughter of the Rev. James Edgeley, 
Vicar of Wandsworth, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s, by Anne, daughter 
of Blackburn, William Hewer’s uncle, often mentioned in the 
Diary. Mr. Jackson left two sons (at whose death, s. p., the male line 
became extinct) and five daughters, the youngest of whom married 
John Cockerell, of Bishop’s Hall, Somerset. For an account of their 
descendants, see the Pedigree of Pepys. 


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Pepys’s death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein. 
But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your doing 
the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a small 
instance of his most effectionate respect and honour for you. I have 
thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at that only 
time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and express so great a 
desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which could not but have 
been admitted by him as a most welcome exception to his general orders 
against being interrupted; and I could most heartily wish that the cir- 
cumstances of your health and distance did not forbid me to ask the 
favour of your assisting in the holding up of the pawll at his inter- 
ment, which is intended to be on Thursday next; for if the manes are 
affected with what passes below, I am sure this would have been very 
grateful to his. 

I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body, 
(which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own satis- 
faction as well as public good,) there was found in his left kidney a nest 
of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular figures your imagina- 
tion can frame, and weighing together four ounces and a half, but all 
fast linked together, and adhering to his back; whereby they solve his 
having felt no greater pains upon motion, nor other of the ordinary 
symptoms of the stone. Some other lesser defects there also were in 
his body, proceeding from the same cause. But his stamina, in general, 
were marvellously strong, and not only supported him, under the most 
exquisite pains, weeks bey ond all expectations; but, in the conclusion, 
contended for near forty hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with 
the very agonies of death, some few minutes excepted, before his expir- 
ing, which were very calm. 

There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the consola- 
tion and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my Uncle’s sake; 

and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he ever did, among 
your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one of the most valu- 
able parts of my inheritances from him; being also, with the faithfullest 
wishes of health and a happy long life to you, 

Honoured Sir, 
Your most obedient and 
Most humble Servant, 
J. Jackson. 


Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle’s Executor, and equally your faithful Servant, 
joins with me in every part hereof. 

The time of my Uncle’s departure was about three-quarters past three 
on Wednesday morning last. 


XXXVI LIFE OF 


Extract of a letter from Dr. Hickes,’ to Dr. Charlett.? 


June 5, 1703. 

Last night, at 9 o’clock, I did the last office for your and my good 
friend, Mr. Pepys, at St Olave’s Church, where he was laid in a vault of 
his own makeing, by his wife and brother.* 

The greatness of his behaviour, in his long and sharp tryall before 
his death, was in every respect answerable to his great life; and I believe 
no man ever went out of this world with greater contempt of it, or a 
more lively faith in every thing that was revealed of the world to come. 
I administered the Holy Sacrament twice in his illness to him, and had 
administered it a third time, but for a sudden fit of illness that happened 
at the appointed time of administering of it. Twice I gave him the 
absolution of the Church, which he desired, and received with all rever- 
ence and comfort; and I never attended any sick or dying person that 
dyed with so much Christian greatnesse of mind, or a more lively sense 
of immortality, or so much fortitude and patience, in so long and sharp 
a tryall, or greater resignation to the will, which he most devoutly 
acknowledged to be the wisdom of God; and I doubt not but he is now 
a very blessed spirit, according to his motto, MENS CUJUSQUE IS EST 
QUISQUE. 

Grorce Hicxes. 


Samuel Pepys, by his will dated May, 1703, left his 
estate at Brampton, and the residue of his property, 
charged with a few legacies, to his nephew, John Jackson; 
to whom he also gave the use of his valuable Library and 
Collection of Prints, for his life, and directed that they 
should afterwards be removed to Magdalene College, Cam- 
bridge,* and placed for ever, subject to certain restrictions 


1George Hickes, D.D., deprived of the Deanery of Worcester, 
February, 1689-90, which he had held six years, for refusing to take the 
oaths to King William. He was a person of universal learning, and 
author of several works upon the old Northern languages, in which he 
was deeply read. Ob. 1715, et. suze 74. 


? From the original in the Bodleian Library. 


5“ June 4, 1703.—Samuel Pepys, Esqre, buried in a vault by y 
Comunion Table.”—Register of St. Olave’s, Hart Street. This is deci- 
sive as to the proper pronunciation of the name. - 


Tt seems odd that there should be no record of the exact time at 
which the books were transferred by the executors of Mr. Jackson to 
Magdalene College, nor has any account of his death been found, except 


SAMUEL PEPYS XXXVIi 


and regulations, in the sole custody of the Master for the 
time being. He seemed conscious that his heirs would not 
feel satisfied with his testamentary dispositions, and accord- 
ingly inserted the following clause in his will:— 


“I earnestly recommend it to my said Nephews to join 
with me in not repining at any disappointment they may, by 
the late public Providence of God, meet with in what they 
might otherwise have reasonably hoped for from me at my 
death; but to receive with thankfulness, from God’s hands, 
whatsoever it will prove, remembering it to be more than 
what either myself, or they, were born to, and therefore 
endeavouring, on their part, by all humble and honest en- 
deavours, to improve the same.” 

He died, in fact, in very reduced circumstances: nor 
could it be otherwise, since he never received any pension 
or remuneration for his long official labours, subsequently 
to his retirement at the Revolution; while the habits of 
generosity and hospitality, in which he had indulged, when 
his means were more ample, terminated only with his life: 
and these expenses, added to the charges entailed upon him 
for the education of his Nephews, and the extensive addi- 
tions which he was constantly making to his library, would 
have absorbed a larger income than he had ever possessed. 
There was indeed a balance of 28,0071. 2s. 14d. due to him 
from the Crown, on a long unsettled account, which had 
grown up during his employments as Treasurer for Tan- 
gier, Clerk of the Acts, and Secretary to the Admiralty; 
and which he bequeathed specifically to be laid out in the 
purchase of lands for the use of his Nephew and his heirs. 


the following entry in Humphrey Wanley’s Diary, Harl. M.S., 771, 
7172 :— 

“99d Mar. 1772-3. Nathaniel Noel (the eminent bookseller) came, 
who says ‘old Mr. Jackson, of Clapham, is dead, and Mr. Pepys’s 
Library will be disposed of.” 


*Printed in Hartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge, p. 222. 


XXXVI LIFE OF 


The original Vouchers relating to this transaction, as veri- 
fied on oath by the claimant himself, before Chief Baron 
Warde, are still in the possession of the Cockerell family; 
but the times which immediately preceded and followed his 
decease were unfavourable to the liquidation of the debt, 
however due as an act of justice, as well as a tribute to 
the memory of so good and faithful a servant of the public. 
It is farther to be remarked, that though Pepys’s funeral was 
conducted in a manner suitable to the station which he had 
adorned,’ no stone, however humble, marks the spot within 
St. Olave’s Church in which his remains were deposited; 
the vault is, however, probably contiguous to the monu- 
ment erected by him to his wife, still to be seen in the 
chancel.’ 

In conclusion, I feel tempted to insert the character of 
Pepys, given in the Supplement to Collier’s Dictionary, 
though drawn perhaps by a too partial hand, and from 
which article I have already drawn largely, in compiling 
this Memoir. 

“It may be affirmed of this Gentleman,” (says his con- 
temporaneous biographer,) ‘‘ that he was, without exception, 
the greatest and most useful Minister that ever filled the 


1“Tondon, June 5. Yesterday, in the evening, were performed the 
obsequies of Samuel Pepys, Esq., in Crutched-Friars’ Church; whither 
his corpse was brought in a very honourable and solemn manner from 
Clapham, where he departed this life the 26th day of the last month.”— 
Post Boy, No. 1257, June 5, 1703. 


7I am informed by the Rev. Thomas Boyles Murray, rector of St. 
Dunstan’s-in-the-East, that in the summer of 1836, when the church of 
St. Olave, Hart Street, was under repair, a vault was found on the north 
side of the Communion table, containing a skull and some bones, which, 
being uppermost, were probably the remains of Samuel Pepys, he 
having been the last of his family there interred. It is singular, that in 
the same spot a stone of the size of a walnut was discovered among the 
bones. 

In October, 1845, Mr. Murray printed in the Gentleman's Magazine 
some particulars respecting Pepys, in connexion with the parish of St. 
Olave’s, Hart Street, which will be found corroborative af many state- 
ments in the Diary. 


SAMUEL PEPYS XXX1X 


same situations in England; the Acts and Registers of the 
Admiralty proving this fact beyond contradiction. The 
principal rules and establishments in present use in those 
offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and 
most of the officers serving therein, since the Restoration, 
of his bringing up. He was a most studious promoter and 
strenuous assertor of order and discipline through all their 
dependencies. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and 
subjection to command, were essentials required in all whom 
he advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no 
interest or authority were capable of moving him in favour 
of the highest pretending; the Royal command only ex- 
cepted, of which he was also very watchful, to prevent any 
undue procurements. Discharging his duty to his Prince 
and Country with a religious application and perfect in- 
tegrity, he feared no one, courted no one, and neglected his 
own fortune. Besides this, he was a person of universal 
worth, and in great estimation among the Literati, for 
his unbounded reading, his sound judgment, his great 
elocution, his mastery in method, his singular curiosity, 
and his uncommon munificence, towards the advance- 
ment of learning, arts, and industry, in all degrees: to 
which were joined the severest morality of a philosopher, 
and all the polite accomplishments of a gentleman, particu- 
larly those of music, languages, conversation, and address. 
He assisted, as one of the Barons of the Cinque Ports, at 
the Coronation of James II., and was a standing Governor 
of all the principal houses of charity in and about London, 
and sat at the head of many other honourable bodies, in 
divers of which, as he deemed their constitution and me- 
thod deserving, he left lasting monuments of his bounty 
and patronage.” 

Annexed is an engraving of a large Bowl and Cover of 
silver gilt, and the outside enriched with frost work, weigh- 


xl LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS 


ing 166 oz., presented by Pepys to the Clothworkers’ Com- 
pany, of which he was Master in 1677, and still constantly 
used at their Festivals. He also gave them a gilt Ewer and 
Bason of the weight of 196 oz. 


DIARY 


OF 


SAMUEL PEPYS 


1659-60 


LESSED be God, at the end of the last year, I was in 
very good health, without any sense of my old pain, 
but upon taking of cold.* I lived in Axe Yard,” having 

my wife, and servant Jane, and no other in family than us 


three. 
The condition of the State was thus: viz., the Rump, 


after being disturbed by my Lord* Lambert,* was lately re- 
turned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to 
yield. Lawson’ lies still in the river, and Monk® is with 
his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet 
come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will, 


10On March 26, 1658, Pepys had been successfully cut for the stone; 
a malady which seems to have affected several other members of his 
family. 

?Pepys’s house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; 
it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he should 
have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street stands on the 
site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great messuage or 
brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called “ The Axe,” and re- 
ferred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII. 

®He is styled “Lord” not by right, nor even by courtesy; the title 
was often given to the republican officers and their dependants. 

* Sufficiently known by his services as a Major-General in the Par- 
liament forces during the Civil War, and condemned as a traitor after 
the Restoration; but reprieved and banished to Guernsey, where he 
lived in confinement thirty years. 

5Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, rose to. the 
rank of Admiral, and distinguished himself during the Protectorate; 
and, though a republican in heart, readily closed with the design of 
restoring the King. He was mortally wounded in the sea-fight in 1665. 
He must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of 
Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles IL, 
July 6, 1665. ®* George Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle. 


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2 DIARY OF [Ist Jan. 


without being forced to it. The new Common Council of 
the City do speak very high; and had sent to Monk 
their sword-bearer to acquaint him with their desires for a 
free and full parliament, which is at present the desires 
and the hopes, and the expectations of all: twenty-two of 
the old secluded members having been at the House-door 
the last week to demand entrance, but it was denied them; 
and it is believed that neither they nor the people will be 
satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition 
very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; 
besides my goods of my house, and my office, which at pre- 
sent is somewhat certain. Mr. Downing master of my office.* 

Jan. Ist. (Lord’s day.) This morning, (we living lately 
in the garret) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts,) 
having not lately worn any other clothes but them. Went 
to Mr. Gunning’s’ chapel at Exeter House,’ where he made 


Wood has misled us in stating that Sir George Downing, here men- 
tioned, was a son of Dr. Calibut Downing, the rector of Hackney. He 
was beyond doubt the son of Emmanuel Downing, a London merchant, 
who went to New England. It is not improbable that Emmanuel 
was a near kinsman of Calibut; how related has not yet been discovered. 
Governor Hutchinson, in his History of Massachusetts, gives the true 
account of Downing’s affiliation, which has been further confirmed by 
Mr. Savage, of Boston, from the public records of New England. Wood 
calls Downing a sider with all times and changes: skilled in the com- 
mon cant, and a preacher occasionally. He was sent by Cromwell to 
Holland, as resident there. About the Restoration, he espoused the 
King’s cause, and was knighted and elected M.P. for Morpeth, in 1661. 
Afterwards, becoming Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of 
the Customs, he was in 1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cam- 
bridgeshire, and was again sent Ambassador to Holland. His grandson 
of the same name, who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing 
College, Cambridge. The title became extinct in 1764, upon the 
decease of Sir John Gerrard Downing, the last heir male of the family. 
The office appears to have been in the Exchequer, and connected with 
the pay of the army. Sir George Downing’s character will be found in 
Lord Clarendon’s Life, vol. iii. p. 4. Pepys’s opinion seems to be 
somewhat of a mixed kind. Ludlow, in his Memoirs, bitterly inveighs 
against Downing, who had been Okey’s chaplain, and had received 
many obligations at his hands. 

? Peter Gunning, afterwards master of St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely: ob. 1684. He had 
continued to read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the 
Parliament was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked 
him. Wood’s Athene. See Evelyn’s Diary for many notices of him. 


3 Exeter House, here mentioned, on the north side of the Strand, was 


es 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 3 


a very good sermon upon these words :—‘ That in the ful- 
ness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman,” &c.; 
showing, that by “ made under the law” is meant the cir- 
cumcision, which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in 
the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, 
and in the doing of it she burned her hand. [I staid at 
home the whole afternoon, looking over my accounts; then 
went with my wife to my father’s, and in going observed the 
great posts which the City workmen set up at the Conduit 
in Fleet Street. 

2nd. Walked a great while in Westminster Hall, where 
I heard that Lambert was coming up to London; that my 
Lord Fairfax’ was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it 
was not certain what he would declare for. The House 
was to-day upon finishing the act for the Council of State, 
which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; and 


built by Lord Burleigh, whose son was the first Earl of Exeter, from 
whom it was nained: nearly on the same site stood Exeter Change, 
which has given place to the present Exeter Hall. 


Thomas Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. 
After the Restoration, he retired to his country-seat where he lived in 
private till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of Lord Fairfax’s 
Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, the following 
lines occur upon the 20th of January, on which day the King was 
beheaded. It is believed that they have never been printed. 


*O let that day from time be bloted quitt, 
And beleef of’t in next age be waved, 
In depest silence that act concealed might, 
That so the creadet of our nation might be saved; 
But if the powre devine hath ordered this, 
His will’s the law, and our must aquiess.” 
These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious 
as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles I.’s 
judges, continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror for that 
unfortunate monarch’s fate. It has recently been pointed out to me, 
that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, being only a 
poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius Sylvarum, lib. v. cap. 
ii. 1. 88:— 
¥ *“ Excidat illa dies wvo, ne postera credant 
Secula, nos certé taceamus; et obruta multa 
Nocte tegi propriz patiamur crimina gentis.” 


These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the massacre 
of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in his memo- 
rable speech in the House of Commons, January 1793, after the murder 
of Louis XVI. 

Ba 


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A DIARY OF [5th Jan, 


were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk 
that many places had declared for a free Parliament; and it 
is believed that they will be forced to fill up the House with 
the old members. From the Hall I called at home, and so 
went to Mr. Crewe’s;' (my wife she was to go to her 
father’s) and Mr. Moore and I and another gentleman went 
out and drank a cup of ale together in the new market, 
and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. 

3rd. To White Hall, where I understood that the Par- 
liament had passed the act of indemnity for the soldiers and 
officers that would come in, in so many days, and that my 
Lord Lambert should have benefit of the said act. They 
had also voted that all vacancies in the House, by the death 
of any of the old members, should be filled up; but those 
that are living shall not be called in. 

4th. Strange the difference of men’s talk. Some say 
that Lambert must of necessity yield up; others, that he is 
very strong, and that the Fifth-monarchy-men will stick to 
him, if he declares for a free Parliament. Chillington 
was sent yesterday to him with the note of pardon and 
indemnity from the Parliament. Went and walked in 
the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent this day 
in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters 
from the North, that brought certain news that my Lord 
Lambert his forces were all forsaking him, and that he was 
left with only fifty horse, and that he did now declare for 
the Parliament himself; and that my Lord Fairfax did also 
rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that what he 
had done was only to secure the country against my Lord 
Lambert his raising of money, and free quarter. I met 
with the clerk and quarter-master of my Lord’s’ troop, and 
Mr. Jenkins showed me two bills of exchange for money to 
receive upon my Lord’s and my pay. 


5th.\I dined with Mr. Shey. at my Lord’s lodgings, 


1 John Crewe, created Baron CFewe of Stene, in the county of 
Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemim 
daughter and co-heir to Edward Walgrave, Esq., of Lawford, Essex. 

? Admiral Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, uni- 
formly styled “my Lord” throughout the Diary, his title, before his 
elevation to the peerage, being of the same nature as that of Lord 
Lambert, already explained. 


® He seems to have been the cera at Hinchingbrooke. 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 5 


upon his turkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the 
Excise money was brought, and some of it told to soldiers 
till it was dark. Then I went home, after writing to my 
Lord the news that the Parliament had this night voted that 
the members that were discharged from sitting in the years 
1648 and 49 were duly discharged; and that there should 
be writs issued presently for the calling of others in their 
places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to 
town, and that the President Bradshaw’s' lodgings were to 
be provided for Monk at Whitehall. Then my wife and I, 
it being a great frost, went to Mrs. Jem’s,” in expectation 
to eat a sack-posset, but Mr. Edward not coming, it was 
put off; and I left my wife playing at'cards with her, and 
went myself to Mr. Fage, to consult concerning my nose, 
who told me it was nothing but cold. Mr. Fage and I did 
discourse concerning public business; and he told me it is 
true the City had not time enough to do much, but they are 
resolved to shake off the soldiers; and that, unless there be 
a free Parliament chosen, he did believe there are half the 
Common Council will not levy any money by order of this 
e XD 


Parliament. Pu: 
6th. This morning Mr. Shepley and I did ext our break- 
fast at Mrs. Harper’s, (my brother John*® being with me) 
upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. At my office, where 
we paid money to the soldiers till one o’clock, and I took 
my wife to my cosen, Thomas Pepys, and found them just 
sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison 
pasty was palpable mutton, which was not handsome. 

"th. At my office receiving money of the probate of wills. 


8th. (Lord’s day.) In the morning went to Mr. Gun- 
ning’s, re @good sermon, wherein he showed the life of 

1 John Bradst -Serjeant-at-Law, President of ‘the High Court of 
Justice: the were at Whitehall. fait 

? This, la ione in the Diary, Bas Jemima, eldest 


e had been ill; and during her 
been left under the superintend- 

Mr. Edward was her eldest 
Hinchingbroke. 


seems 

epys, in a Londo 
brother. He is afterwards ca 

’John Pepys, afterwards in ders, died unmarried in 1677, at 
which time he held some office the Trinity House.—Pepys’s MS. 
Letters. Samuel Pepys, in his book of Signs Manual, descrikes him as 
“my brother and successor in my office, as Clerk of the Acts of the 
Navy, under King Charles II.” 


6 DIARY OF [9th Jan, 


Christ, and told as good authority for us to believe that 
Christ did follow his father’s trade, and was a carpenter till 
thirty years of age. 

9th. I rose early this morning, and looked over and 
corrected my brother John’s speech, which he is to make the 
next opposition.» I met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and 
Jack Price, and went with them to Harper’s, and staid till 
two of the clock in the afternoon. I found Muddiman a 
good scholar, an arch rogue; and owns that though he writes 
new books for the Parliament, yet he did declare that he did 
it only to get money; and did talk very basely of many of 
them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how his 
uncle Scobell* was on Saturday last called to the bar, for 
entering in the journal of the House, for the year 1653, these 
words: ‘* This day his Excellence the Lord General Cromwell 
dissolved this House;” which words the Parliament voted 
a forgery, and demanded of him how they ca to be 
entered. He said that they were his own handwriting, and 
that he did it by rights of his office, and the practice of his 
predecessor ;*> and that the intent of the practice was to let 
posterity know how such and such a Parliament was dis- 
solved, whether by the command of the King, or by their own 
neglect, as the last Housexof Lords was; and that to this 
end, he had said and writ hi 8 it was dissolved by his Excel- 
lency the Lord G.; and that for the word dissolved, he never 
at the time did hear of . other term; and desired pardon 
if he would not dare to make a word himself what it was six 
years after, before they came themselves to call it an inter- 
ruption; that they were so little satisfied with this answer, 
that they did chuse a committee to report he House 
whether this crime of Mr. Scobell’ s did con ny 
of indemnity or n eh 
certain that M 


*Declamations at St. Paul’s 
and respondents. It is now calle 

? Henry Scobell, clerk to the 

®> Henry Elsinge. * Jo Bradshaw: see Jan. 5th, ante. 

5’ Son of a statesman of both his names, and one of the most turbulent 
enthusiasts produced by the Rebellion, and an inflexible republican. 
His execution, in 1662, for conspiring the death of Charles I., was 


1659-60] SAMUEL ’*PEPYS 7 


more there; and that he would retire himself to his house 
at Raby," as also all the rest of the nine officers, that had 
their commissions formerly taken away from them, were 
commanded to their furthest houses from London during 
the pleasure of the Parliament. 

10th. To the coffee-house [Miles’s], where were a great 
confluence of gentlemen: viz., Mr. Harrington,” Poultny,’ 
chairman, Gold,* Dr. Petty,’ &c., where admirable dis- 
course till 9 at night. Thence with Doling to Mother 
Lam’s, who told me how this day Scott® was made Intelli- 
gencer, and that the rest of the members that were ob- 
jected against last night, were to be heard this day se’nnight. 

13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with 
Mr. Fage, and took him to the Swan.’ He told me how 
he, Haselyigge,* and Morley,’ the last night began at my 


much d in question as a measure of great severity. He is the direct 
ance of the present Duke of Cleveland. See Diary, June 14, 1662. 


* Raby Castle, in Durham, still the chief seat of the Duke of 
Cleveland. 


?James Harrington, the political writer, aut 
founder of a club called The Rota, in 1659, which n 
house in Old Palace Yard, and lasted only, a few 
was sent to the Tower, on suspiciongef treasonable desig 
lects appear to have failed afterwards, and he died in 1667. See Cun- 
ningham’s Handbook of London, ps 836}, edit. 1850: “ Henry Nevill and 
Harrington had every night a meeting the (then) Turke’s Head, in 
the New Palace Yard, where the r tal water, the next house to the 
Staires, at one Miles’s, where was made purp a large oval table, 
with a passage in the middle, for Miles to ceiver bigot. About it sat 
his disciples and the virtuosi.”—Aubrey’s Bodleian Letters, vol. iii. p. 371. 

8Sir William Poultney, subsequently M.P. for Westminster, and a 
of the Privy Seal under King William. Ob. 1671. 
Jilliam Earl of Bath. 


ee 20 January, 1669, and 


*“ Oceana,” and 
Miles’s coffee- 
In 1661 he 
His intel- 


note there, in which 


celebrated for his" 
He is the dire 


an eminent physi 
ranch of science. 
is of La ' 


-P., made 


y of to the Commonwea 


®Sir Arth Nosely, co. Leicester, and 
ent in the Parliament army 


elrigge, 
for that counff lonel of 
much esteemed by Cromwell. March following, he was commi 


to the iow, where he died, January, 1660-61. He was brothe 
law to Lord Brooke, who was killed at Lichfield. 


* Probably, Colonel Morley, Lieutenant of the Tower, whom 


| 


a 


8 DIARY OF [17th Jan, 


Lord Mayor’s* to exclaim against the City of London, 
saying that they had forfeited their charter. And how 
the Chamberlain of the City did take them down, letting 
them know how much they were formerly beholden to the 
City, &c. He also told me that Monk’s letter that came by 
the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that which they 
did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make 
no more applications to the Parliament, nor to pay any 
money, unless the secluded members be brought in, or a 
free Parliament chosen. To Mrs. Jem, and found her up 
the merry, as it did not prove the small-pox, but the 
swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her. 

16th. In the morning I went up to Hr. Crewe’s, who 
did talk to me concerning things of State; and expressed 
his mind how just it was that the secluded members should 
come to sit again. From thence to my office, where nothing 
to do; but Mr. Downing came and found me ally alone; 
and did mention to me his going back into Holland,’ and 
did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me little 
encouragement, but bid me consider of it; and asked me 
whether I did not think that Mr. Hawley could perform 
the work of my office alone. I confess I was at a great loss 
all the day after to bethink myself how to carry this busi- 
ness. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell 
just under my window as I was writing of this very line, 
and cried, “ Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy, 
morning.”” 

17th. In our way to Kensington we understood how that 
my Lord Chesterfield’ had killed another gentleman about 


blames so strongly for not doing what Monk did. See als 
Review, vol. xix. p. 32. “hee 


1Sir Thomas Allen, created a baronet at the Resto 
ruined by his expenses as Lord Mayor. 
?This reminds us of Milton— 


“Or the bellman’s drowsy , ’ v 
To bless the door from tly harm.”—II Penseroso. ~ 


8 Philip Stanhope, second Earl erfield, o 1713, zt. suse 80. 
We learn, from the memoir prefixe Printed orrespondence, that 
he fought three duels, disarming and wounding his first and second 
antagonists, and killing the third. The name of the unfortunate gentle- 
man who fell on this occasion was Woolly. Lord Chesterfield, ab- 
sconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the royal pardon ‘from 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 9 


half an hour before and was fled.’ I went to the Coffee 
Club [Miles’s], and heard very good discourse; it was in 
answer to Mr. Harrington’s answer, who said that the state 
of the Roman government was not a settled government, 
and so it was no wonder that the balance of propriety was 
in one hand, and the command in another, it being therefore 
always in a posture of war; but it was carried by ballot 
that it was a steady government, though it is true by the 
voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteady 
government: so to-morrow it is to be proved by the oppo- 
nents that the balance lay in one hand, and the government 
in another. Thence I went to Westminster, and met Shaw 
and Washington,” who told me how this day Sydenham*® 
was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Par- 
liament, and that Salloway* was voted out likewise and sent 
to the Tower, during the pleasure of the House. At 
Harper’s, Jack Price told me, among other things, how 
much the Protector is altered, though he would seem to 
bear out his trouble very well, yet he is scarce able to talk 
sense with a man; and how he will say that, “Who should 
a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle ;”° 


Charles II. He acted a busy part in the eventful times in which he 
lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence to the Stuarts. 
Lord Chesterfield’s letter to Charles II., and the King’s answer granting 
the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence published by General 
Sir John Murray, in 1829. 


*“ Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly’s son 
of Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price: 
the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge passed 
between them. They fought a duel on the backside of Mr. Colby’s 
house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several passes. The 
Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have then ended, but 
the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly would not give over, 
and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. The Earl fled to Chel- 
sea, and there took water and escaped. The jury found it chance- 
medley.”—Rugge’s Diurnal, Addit. MSS. British Museum. 


? The Purser: see Ist July, 1660. 


*Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the 
Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M.P. for Dorsetshire, Governor 
of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety. He was the elder 
brother of the celebrated physician of that name. 


‘In the Journals of that date, Major Richard Salwey. Colonel Sal- 
wey is mentioned as a prisoner in the Tower, 1663-4, in Bayley’s history 
of that fortress. 


*Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Usurpation 


a 


10 DIARY OF . [19th Jan. 


and ‘how much those men have to answer before God 
Almighty, for their playing the knave with him as they 
did.”” He told me also, that there was 100,000. offered, 
and would have been taken, for his restitution, had not the 
Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe 
that the Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour 
and revenge yet before he dies, and that the Protector will 
say so himself sometimes. 

18th. I interpreted my lord’s letter by his character.’ 
All the world is at a loss to think what Monk will do: the 
City saying that he will be for them, and the Parliament 
saying he will be for them. 

19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and 
at his bed-side he told me, that he had a kindness for me, 
and that he thought that he had done me one; and that 
was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of the 
Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not 
tell what to do, whether to thank him or no; but by and 
by I did; but not very heartily, for I feared that his domg 
of it was only to ease himself of the salary* which he gives 
me. I read the answer of the Dutch Ambassador*® to our 
State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord’s coming home, 
which he gave for his coming, and did labour to contradict 
my Lord’s anguments for his coming home. Mr. Moore 
and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. Downing 
this day feasted Sir Arthur Haselrigge, and a great many 
more of the Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of 
me. Here he gave me a note to go and invite some other 
members to dinner to-morrow. So I went to White Hall, 
and did stay at Marsh’s with Simons, Luellin, and all the rest 
of the Clerks of the Council, who I hear are all turned out, 
only the two Leighs, and they do all tell me that my name 
was mentioned last night, but that nothing was done in it. 


became Cromwell’s son-in-law by his marriage with Ireton’s widow, and 
a member of the Council of State. He seemed disposed to have es- 
poused Charles the Second’s interests, but had not resolution enough 
to execute his design. At the Restoration, he was excepted out of the 
Act of Indemnity, and spent the remainder of his life in obscurity, 
dying soon after the Revolution. John Desborough was Cromwell’s 
brother-in-law, and one of his Major-Generals. Both Fleetwood and 
Desborough played a double game. 


*4, ¢., in cipher. 7 Of 501. See Jan. 30th, 1659-60. * Nieuport. 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 11 


20th. In the morning I met Lord Widdrington* in the 
street, going to seal the patents for the Judges to-day, and 
so could not come to dinner. This day, three citizens of 
London* went to meet Monk from the Common Council. 
Received my 25/. due by bill for my trooper’s pay. At the 
Mitre,* in Fleet Street, in our way calling on Mr. Fage, who 
told me how the City had some hopes of Monk. This day 
Lenthall* took his chair again, and the House resolved a 
declaration to be brought in on Monday, to satisfy the world 
what they intend to do. At Westminster Hall, where Mrs. 
Lane® and the rest of the maids had their white scarfs, all 
having been at the burial of a young bookseller in the 
Hall.® 

22nd. (Lord’s day.) To church in the afternoon to Mr. 
Herring,’ where a lazy, poor sermon. This day I began to 
put on buckles to my shoes. 

23rd. This day the Parliament sat late, and resolved of 
the declaration to be printed for the people’s satisfaction, 
promising them a great many good things. In the garden 


1Sir Thomas Widdrington, Serjeant-at-Law, one of Cromwell’s Com- 
missioners of the Treasury, appointed Speaker 1656, and first Commis- 
sioner for the Great Seal, January, 1659; he was M. P. for York. See 
Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors. 

2 Jan. 20th. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the 
Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman 
Vincett, alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General 
Monk, who lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire.” 

“Jan. 21. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk 
so near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for 
their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword- 
bearer to the General without the Parliament’s consent, and the three 
Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four lines 
were in almost everybody’s mouth:— 


Monk under a hood, not well understood, 
The City pull in their horns; 
The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout, 
And the Parliament sit upon thorns.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


®* This coffee-house, so well known by the readers of Boswell’s Life of 
Johnson, still exists. 


‘William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long or Rump Parliament, and 
made Keeper of the Great Seal to the Commonwealth: ob. 1662. 


5See Jan. 10th, 1660-61. 
* Several old views of the Hall represent the book-stalls. 


TJohn Herring, a Presbyterian minister, who was afterwards ejected 
from St. Bride’s, in Fleet Street. See August 17th, 1662, 


12 DIARY OF [24th Jan. 


at White Hall, going through to the Stone Gallery, I fell in 
a ditch, it being very dark. 

24th. I took my wife to Mr. Pierce’s,* she in her way 
being exceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens, and 
I vexed to go so slow, it being late. We found Mrs. 
Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who called one another 
husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal of mad stir. 
There was pulling off Mrs. bride’s and Mr. bridegroom’s 
ribbons,” and a great deal of fooling among them that I and 
my wife did not like. Mr. Lucy and several other gentle- 
men coming in after dinner, swearing and singing as if they 
were mad, only he singing very handsomely. ‘There came 


1James Pierce, surgeon to the Duke of York: he was husband of the 
pretty Mrs. Pierce, and not Pierce the Purser. See 27th August, 1660. 


?The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connexion 
with weddings (see also 26th Jan., 1660-61, and 8th Feb., 1662-3) 
doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the bridegroom, 
which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse. All the old 
plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of which occurs in 
the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O’Bradley, printed in the 
Appendix to Robin Hood, 1795, where we read— 


“Then got they his points and his garters, 
And cut them in pieces like martyrs; 
And then they all did play 
For the honour of Arthur O’Bradley.” 


Sir Winston Churchill also observes (Divi Britannici, p. 340) that 
James I. was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing 
him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady 
Fanshawe, in her Memoirs, says, that at the nuptials of Charles II. and 
the Infanta, “ the Bishop of London declared them married in the name 
of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they caused the 
ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and as far as they 
would go, every one had some.” The practice still survives in the form 
of wedding favours. 

A similar custom is still of every day’s occurrence at Dieppe. Upon 
the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate 
the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding 
festival, two and two; each individual wearing two bits of narrow 
ribbon, about two inches in length, of different colours, which are 
pinned cross-ways upon the breast. These morsels of ribbons originally 
formed the garters of the bride and bridegroom, which had been divided 
amidst boisterous mirth among the assembled company, the moment 
the happy pair had been formally installed in the bridal bed.—Ex. inf. 
Mr. William Hughes, Belvedere, Jersey. 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 13 


in also Mr. [James] Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne,’ 
and with him Lambert,’ lieutenant of my Lord’s ship, and 
brought with them the declaration that came out to-day 
from the Parliament, wherein they declare for law and 
gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people apt to be- 
lieve them. This day the Parliament gave orders that the 
late Committee of Safety should come before them this day 
se’nnight, and all their papers, and their model of Govern- 
ment that they had made, to be brought in with them. Mr. 
Crumlum* gave my father directions what to do about 
getting my brother an exhibition, and spoke very well of him. 

25th. Coming home, heard that in Cheapside there had 
been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of 
Huson‘ hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called 
at Paul’s Churchyard, where I bought Buxtorf’s Hebrew 
Grammar; and read [at Kirton’s] a declaration of the 
gentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. 
To Mr. Crewe’s about a picture to be sent into the country, 
of Mr. Thomas Crewe, to my Lord. 

26th. Called for some papers at Whitehall for Mr. 
Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for 
18001. per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, 
Orders to the Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods 
pass free. Home from my office to my Lord’s lodgings, 
where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner—viz. a dish 
of marrow-bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of 
fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great 


1 Robert Blackbourne, then Secretary to the Admiralty, with a salary 
of 2501. 


2See 4th Oct., 1660; 6th June, 1661; and 14th Sept., 1665. 
* Samuel Cromleholme, or Crumlum, Master of St. Paul’s School. 


‘John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a Colonel in the 
Parliament Army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hang- 
ing by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. A curious notice of 
Hewson occurs in Rugge’s Diurnal, 5th December, 1659, which states 
that “he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very good 
commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the city 
apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and turnip-tops, and 
brick-bats, stones, and tiles.” . . “At this time [January, 1659-60,] 
there came forth, almost every day, jeering books: one was called 
Colonel Hewson’s Confession; or, a Parley with Pluto, about his going 
into London, and taking down the gates of Temple-Bar.” He had but 
one eye which did not escape the notice of his enemies, 


14 DIARY OF [30th Jan. 


tart, a neat’s tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns 
and cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, 
his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all their wives, and my 
brother Tom. The news this day is a letter that speaks 
absolutely Monk’s concurrence with this Parliament, and 
nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. I wrote two 
characters for Mr. Downing, and carried them to him. 

28th. I went to Mr. Downing, who told me that he was 
resolved to be gone for Holland this morning. So I to my 
office again, and dispatch my business there, and came with 
Mr. Hawley to Mr. Downing’s lodging, and took Mr. 
Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and 
there we waited in his chamber a great while, till he came 
in; and, in the mean time, sent all his things to the barge 
that lays at Charing Cross stairs. Then came he in, and 
took a very civil leave of me, beyond my expectations, for 
I was afraid that he would have told me something of re- 
moving me from my office; but he did not, but that he 
would do me any service that lay in his power. So I went 
down, and sent a porter to my house for my best fur cap, but 
he coming too late with it, I did not present it to him; and 
so I returned and went to Heaven,’ where Luellin and I dined. 

29th. (Lord’s day). In the morning I went to Mr. 
Gunning’s, where he made an excellent sermon upon the 2d 
of the Galatians, about the difference that fell between St. 
Paul and St. Peter, whereby he did prove, that, contrary to 
the doctrine of the Roman Church, St. Paul did never own 
any dependence, or that he was inferior to St. Peter, but 
that they were equal, only one a_ particular charge of 
preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. Cast- 
ing up my accounts, I do find myself to be worth 401. and 
more, which I did not think, but am afraid that I have for- 
got something. 

30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of 
my song, “Great, good, and just,” &c.,” and put myself 
thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now ten years 

1A place of entertainment in Old Palace Yard, on the site of which 
the Committee Rooms of the House ef Commons were erected some 
aie It is called in Hudibras, “ False Heaven, at the end of the 


2?This is the beginning of Montrose’s verses on the execution of 
Charles I., which Pepys had probably set to music:— 


1659-60) SAMUEL PEPYS 15 


since, his Majesty died. There seems now to be a general 
cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do re- 
solve to stand to the Parliament, and nothing else. I took 
my 12/. 10s. due to me for my last quarter’s salary. [See 
p- 10.] 

31st. After dinner went to Westminster Hall, where all 
we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee at the 
Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones," and to give an 
account what money we had paid him; but the Committee 
did not sit to-day. I bought the answer to General Monk’s 
letter, which is a very good one, and I keep it by me. 
Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found her maid in bed in a 
fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below at 
work, and by and by she came up hot and merry, as if they 
had given her wine, at which I was troubled, but said 
nothing; after a game at cards, I went home. Called in at 
Harper’s with Mr. Pulsford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse,” 
who tells me that whereas my Lord Fleetwood* should 
have answered to the Parliament to-day, he wrote a letter 
and desired a little more time, he being a great way out of 
town. And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and 
confesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his 
brother. And that he is like to pay part of the money, 
paid out of the Exchequer during the Committee of Safety, 
out of his own purse again, whieh I am glad of. I could 
find nothing in Mr. Dew ning’s letter, which Hawley brought 
“me, concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawley 
had a mind that I would get to be Clerk of the Council, 


Great, good, and just, could I but rate 
My grief and thy too rigid fate, 
I'd weep the world to such a strain 
That it should deluge once again. 
But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies 
More from Briareus’ hands, than Argus’ eyes, 
I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet “sounds, 
And write ‘thy epitaph with blood and wounds. 
1Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles 
Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland. 
2Probably, Edward Waterhouse, an heraldic and _ miscellaneous 
writer, styled by Lloyd “ as the learned, industrious, and ingenious E. W. 
of Sion College.” His portrait was engraved by Loggan; he died in 
1670. 


* See 17th Jan. 1659-60, and note, 


16 DIARY OF [2nd Feb. 


I suppose that he might have the greater salary; but I 
think it not safe yet to change this for a public employ- 
ment. 

February 1st. Took Gammer East, and James the porter, 
a soldier, to my Lord’s lodgings, and told me how they were 
drawn into the field to-day, and that they were ordered to 
march away to-morrow, to make room for General Monk; 
but they did shout their Colonel Fitch’ and the rest of the 
officers out of the field, and swore they would not go with- 
out their money, and if they would not give it them, they 
would go where they might have it, and that was the City. 
So the Colonel went to the Parliament, and commanded 
what money could be got, to be got against to-morrow for 
them, and all the rest of the soldiers in town, who in all 
places made a mutiny this day, and do agree together. 

2nd. To my office, where I found all the officers of the 
regiments in town waiting to receive money, that their sol- 
diers might go out of town; and what was in the Exchequer 
they had. Harper, Luellin, and I went to the Temple, to 
Mr. Calthrop’s chamber, and from thence had his man by 
water to London Bridge, to Mr. Calthrop, a grocer, and 
received 601. for my Lord. In our way, we talked with our 
waterman, White, who told us how the watermen had lately 
been abused by some that had a desire to get in to be 
watermen to the State, and had lately presented an address 
of nine or ten thousand hands to stand by this Parliament, 
when it was only told them that it was a petition against 
hackney-coaches; and that to-day they had put out another, 


to undeceive the world, and to clear themselves. After I | 


had received the money, we went homewards; but over- 
against Somerset House, hearing the noise of guns, we 
landed and found the Strand full of soldiers. So I took up 
my money and went to Mrs. Johnson, my Lord’s sempstress, 
and giving her my money to lay up, Doling and I went up 
stairs to a window, and looked out and saw the Foot face the 
Horse and beat them back, and stood bawling and calling in 
the street for a free parliament and money. By and by a 
drum was heard to beat a march coming towards them, and 
they all got ready again and faced them, and they proved to 


1Thomas Fitch, Colonel of a regiment of Foot in 1658, M.P. for In- 
verness: he was also Lieutenant of the Tower. 


*% 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 17 


be of the same mind with them; and so they made a great 
deal of joy to see one another. After all this, I went home 
on foot to lay up my money, and change my stockings and 
shoes. I this day left off my great skirt suit, and put on 
my white suit, with silver lace coat,' and went over to 
Harper’s, where I met with W. Simons, Doling, Luellin, 
and three merchants, one of which had occasion to use a 
porter, and so they sent for one, and James the soldier 
came, who told us how they had been all day and night 
upon their guard at St. James’s, and that through the 
whole town they did resolve to stand to what they had be- 
gun, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into 
the City, and be received there. After this we went to a 
sport called, selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, 
and sat talking there till almost twelve at night. 

$d. Drank my morning draft at Harper’s, and was told 
there that the soldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. 
Thence to St. James’s Park, back to Whitehall, where, in a 
guard-chamber, I saw about thirty or forty ’prentices of the 
City, who were taken at twelve o’clock last night and brought 
prisoners hither. Thence to my office, where I paid a little 
more money to some of the soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Miller 
(who held out the Tower against the Parliament, after it 
was taken away from Fitch’ by the Committee of Safety, and 
yet he continued in his office). About noon, Mrs. Turner® 
came to speak with me and Joyce, and I took them and 
showed them the manner of the Houses sitting, the door- 
keeper very civilly opening the door for us. We went walk- 
ing all over White Hall, whither General Monk was newly 
come, and we saw all his forces march by in very good plight, 
and stout officers. After dinner, I went to hear news, but 
only found that the Parliament House was most of them 
with Monk at White Hall, and that in passing through the 
town he had many calls to him for a free Parliament, but 


1Pepys’s father was a tailor, whence perhaps the importance he 
attaches throughout the Diary to dress; it is evidently more than 
vanity. 

See Feb. Ist, ante. 

*Jane, daughter of John Pepys, of South Creak, Norfolk, married 
to John Turner, Sergeant-at-Law; their only child, Theophila, frequently 
mentioned as The. or Theoph., became the wife of Sir Arthur Harris, 
Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died s. p. 


VOL. I. Cc 


18 DIARY OF [6th Feb. 


little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard how un- 
willing some of the old soldiers were yet to go out of town 
without their money, and swore if they had it not in three 
days, as they were promised, they would do them more 
mischief in the country than if they had staid here; and 
that is very likely, the country being all discontented. The 
town and guards are already full of Monk’s soldiers. It 
growing dark, to take a turn in the Park, where Theoph. 
(she was sent for to us to dinner) outran my wife and an- 
other poor woman, that laid a pot of ale with me that she 
would outrun her. 

4th. All the news to-day is, that the Parliament this 
morning voted the House to be made up four hundred 
forthwith. Discourse at an alehouse about Marriott, the 
great eater, so I was ashamed to eat what I could have 
done. I met Spicer in Lincoln’s Inn Court, buying of a 
hanging-jack to roast birds upon. My wife killed her 
turkeys that came out of Zealand with my Lord, and could 
not get her maid Jane to kill any thing at any time. 

5th. (Lord’s day.) At church I saw Dick Cumberland,* 
newly come out of the country from his living. In the 
Court of Wards I saw the three Lords Commissioners sit- 
ting upon some action where Mr. Scobell was concerned, 
and my Lord Fountaine® took him up very roughly about 
some things that he said.® 

6th. To Westminster, where we found the soldiers all set 
in the Palace Yard, to make way for General Monk to come 
to the House. I stood upon the steps and saw Monk go 
by, he making observance to the judges as he went along.* 


1Educated at St. Paul’s School, and afterwards Fellow of Magda- 
lene College, Cambridge: in 1658, he got possession of the rectory of 
Brampton, in Northamptonshire, to which he was not legally instituted 
till 1661. He obtained the rectory of All Saints, Stamford, in 1668, 
and in 1691 was consecrated Bishop of Peterborough. He died at his 
palace 9th October, 1719. 


?Sir Thomas Widdrington and Sergeants Thomas Tyrrel and John 
Fountain had just been appointed Lords Commissioners of the Great 
Seal. 3See Jan. 9th, ante. 


*“ Reb, 6th. General Monk being in his lodgings at Whitehall, had 
notice that the House had a desire to see him. He came into the Court 
of Wards, and being there, the Sergeant-at-Arms went to meet him 
with the mace, and his Lordship attended the Sergeant, who went be- 


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%th. Went to Paul’s School, where he that made the 
speech for the seventh form in praise of the Founder,’ did 
show a book which Mr. Crumlum’ had lately got, which he 
believed to be of the Founder’s own writing. My brother 
John came off as well as any of the rest in the speeches. 
To the Hall, where, in the Palace, I saw Monk’s soldiers 
abuse Billing and all the Quakers, that were at a meeting- 
place there, and indeed the soldiers did use them very 
roughly, and were to blame. This day Mr. Crewe told me 
that my Lord St. John* is for a free Parliament, and that 
he is very great with Monk, who hath now the absolute 
command and power to do any thing that he hath a mind 
to do. 

9th. Before I was out of my bed, I heard the soldiers very 
busy in the morning, getting their horses ready, when they 
lay at Hilton’s, but I knew not then their meaning in so 
‘doing. In the Hall I understand how Monk is this morn- 
ing gone into London with his army; and Mr. Fage told 
me that he do believe that Monk is gone to secure some of 
the Common-council of the City, who were very high yester- 
day there, and did vote that they would not pay any taxes 
till the House was filled up. I went to my office, where I 
wrote to my Lord after I had been at the Upper Bench, 
where Sir Robert Pye this morning came to desire his dis- 
charge from the Tower; but it could not be granted.* I 


fore him with the mace on his shoulder, being accompanied with Mr. 
Scott and Mr. Robinson.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


*John Colet, Dean of St. Paul’s, whose life has been written by 
Knight. 7See Jan. 24th, ante. 


Oliver St. John, of Lamport, Northamptonshire, Solicitor-General 
in 1640, and afterwards Lord Chief-Justice of the Upper Bench. 


*Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a 
staunch Royalist. He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was 
besieged by his son, of the same names, a decided republican, son-in-law 
to Hampden, and colonel of Horse under Fairfax. The son, here spoken 
of, was subsequently committed to the Tower for presenting a petition 
to the House of Commons from the county of Berks, which he repre- 
sented in Parliament, complaining of the want of a settled form of 
government. He had, however, the courage to move for an Habeas 
Corpus, but Judge Newdigate decided that the courts of law had not the 
power to discharge him. Upon Monk’s coming to London, the secluded 
members passed a vote to liberate Pye, and at the Restoration he was 
appointed equerry to the King. He died in 1701. 

c2 


20 DIARY OF [11th Feb. 


called at Mr. Harper’s, who told me how Monk had this 
day clapt up many of the Common-council, and that the 
Parliament had voted that he should pull down their gates 
and portcullisses, their posts and their chains, which he do 
intend to do, and do lie in the City all night. 

To Westminster Hall, where I heard an action very finely 
pleaded between my Lord Dorset* and some other noble 
persons, his lady and other ladies of quality being there, and 
it was about 3301. per annum that was to be paid to a poor 
Spittal, which was given by some of his predecessors; and 
given on his side.” 

10th. Mr. Fage told me what Monk had done in the City, 
how he had pulled down the most part of the gates and 
chains that they could break down, and that he was now 
gone back to White Hall. The City look mighty blank, 
and cannot tell what in the world to do; the Parliament 
having this day ordered that the Common-council sit no 
more, but that new ones be chosen, according to what quali- 
fications they shall give them. 

11th. I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who was 
now gone into the City again, and did resolve to stand for 
the sudden filling up of the House, and it was very strange 
how the countenance of men in the Hall was all changed 
with joy in half an hour’s time. So I went up to the lobby, 
where I saw the Speaker reading of the letter; and after it 
was read, Sir A. Haselrigge came out very angry, and Bil- 
ling, standing at the door, took him by the arm, and cried, 
“Thou man, will thy beast carry thee no longer? thou must 
fall!” We took coach for the City to Guildhall, where the 
Hall was full of people expecting Monk and Lord Mayor 
to come thither, and all very joyful. Met Monk coming 
out of the chamber where he had been with the Mayor*® and 
Aldermen, but such a shout I never heard in all my life, 
crying out, “God bless your Excellence!” Here I met 
with Mr. Lock,* and took him to an ale-house: when we 


1 Richard Sackville, fifth Earl of Dorset, ob. 1677. 

?This was the Sackville College for the poor, at East Grinstead, 
founded by Robert Sackville, second Earl of Dorset, who died in 1608. 
There is a good account of Sackville College in the Gentleman’s Maga- 
zine for December, 1848. 

3 Allen, afterwards Sir Thomas, married to Elizabeth Birch. 

“Matthew Locke, the celebrated composer. 


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were come together, he told us the substance of the letter 
that went from Monk to the Parliament; wherein, after 
complaints that he and his officers were put upon such 
offices against the City as they could not do with any con- 
tent or honour, it states, that there are many members now 
in the House that were of the late tyrannical Committee of 
Safety. That Lambert and Vane* are now in town, con- 
trary to the vote of Parliament. That many in the House 
do press for new oaths to be put upon men; whereas we 
have more cause to be sorry for the many oaths that we 
have already taken and broken. That the late petition of 
the fanatique people presented by Barebones,” for the im- 
posing of an oath upon all sorts of people, was received by 
the House with thanks. That therefore he® did desire that 
all writs for filling up of the House be issued by Friday next, 
and that in the mean time he would retire into the City, 
and only leave them guards for the security of the House 
and Council. The occasion of this was the order that he 
had last night, to go into the City and disarm them, and 
take away their charter; whereby he and his officers said, 
that the House had a mind to put them upon things that 
should make them odious; and so it would be in their 
power to do what they would with them. We were told 
that the Parliament had sent Scott* and Robinson to Monk 
this afternoon, but he would not hear them; and that the 
Mayor and Aldermen had offered their own houses for himself 
and his officers; and that his soldiers would lack for nothing. 
And, indeed, I saw many people give the soldiers drink and 
money, and all along the streets cried, **‘ God bless them!” 
and extraordinary good words. Hence we went to a mer- 


1See Jan. 9, 1659-60. 


2Praise God Barebones, an active member of the Parliament called 
by his name. About this period he had appeared at the head of a band 
of fanatics, and alarmed Monk, who well knew his influence. He was 
a leather seller in Fleet Street. 3 Monk. 


‘Thomas Scott, recently made Secretary of State, had signed the 
King’s death-warrant, for which he was executed at Charing Cross, 16th 
October, 1660. He and Luke Robinson were both Members of Par- 
liament, and of the Council of State, and selected, as firm adherents to 
the Rump, to watch Monk’s proceedings: and never was a mission 
more signally unsuccessful. Scott, before his execution, desired to have 
it written on his tombstone, “Thomas Scott, who adjudged to death 
the late king.” 


22 DIARY OF [12th Feb. 


chant’s house hard by, where I saw Sir Nich. Crisp,’ and so 
we went to the Star Tavern, (Monk being then at Benson’s. ) 
In Cheapside there was a great many bonfires, and Bow- 
bells and all the bells in all the churches as we went home 
were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about 
ten at night. But the common joy that was everywhere to 
be seen! The number of bonfires, there being fourteen be- 
tween St. Dunstan’s and Temple Bar, and at Strand Bridge’ 
I could at one time tell thirty-one fires. In King Street 
seven or eight; and all along, burning, and roasting and 
drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks 
and carried up and down. ‘The butchers at the May Pole 
in the Strand*® rang a peal with their knives when they were 
going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was 
one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and 
another basting of it. Indeed, it was past imagination, 
both the greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end 
of the street you would think there was a whole lane of 
fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further 
side. 

12th. (Lord’s day.) In the morning, it being Lord’s day, 
to White Hall, where Dr. Holmes* preached, but I staid not 
to hear, but walking in the court, I heard that Sir Arthur 
Haselrigge was newly gone into the city to Monk, and that 
Monk’s wife’ removed from White Hall last night. After 


1An eminent merchant, and one of the Farmers of the Customs. 
He had advanced large sums to assist Charles I., who created him a 
Baronet. He died 26th February, 1665, aged 67, and was buried in 
the church of St. Mildred, Bread Street. For an account of him, and 
his magnificent house at Hammersmith, on the site of which Branden- 
burgh House was built, see Lysons’s Environs, and other local histories. 


? Described in Maitland’s History of London as a handsome bridge 
crossing the Strand, near the east end of Catherine Street, under which 
a small stream glided from the fields into the Thames, near Somerset 
House. 


® Where stands the church of St. Mary-le-Strand. 


* Nathaniel Holmes, D.D., of Exeter College, Oxford. He was the 
intruding incumbent of St. Mary, Stayning, London, and ejected by the 
Act of Uniformity, and died in 1676. He was a very learned, but 
voluminous and fanciful writer. A list of his works is given in Wood’s 
Athene, (ed. Bliss) vol. iii. 1160. See also Kennett’s Register, p. 827. 


* Anne Clarges, daughter of a blacksmith, and bred a milliner; mis- 
tress and afterwards wife of General Monk, over whom she exercised 
the greatest influence. 


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dinner, I heard that Monk had been at Paul’s in the morn~ 
ing, and the people had shouted much at his coming out of 
the church. In the afternoon he was at a church in Broad 
Street, whereabout he do lodge. Walking with Mr. Kirton’s’ 
apprentice during evening church, and looking for a tavern 
to drink at, but not finding any open, we durst not knock. To 
my father’s, where Charles Glasscocke was overjoyed to see 
how things are now: who told me the boys had last night 
broke Barebones’ windows. 

13th. This day Monk was invited to White Hall to dinner 
by my Lords; not seeming willing, he would not come. I 
went to Mr. Fage from my father’s, who had been this after- 
noon with Monk, who did promise to live and die with the 
City, and for the honour of the City; and indeed the City is 
very open-handed to the soldiers, that they are most of them 
drunk all day, and had money given them. 

14th. My wife, hearing Mr. Moore’s voice in my dressing- 
chamber, got herself ready, and came down and challenged 
him for her Valentine. ‘To Westminster Hall, there being 
many new remonstrances and declarations from many counties 
to Monk and the City, and one coming from the North from 
Sir Thomas Fairfax.” I heard that the Parliament had now 
changed the oath so much talked of to a promise; and that, 
among other qualifications for the members that are to be 
chosen, one is that no man, nor the son of any man, that 
hath been in arms during the life of the father, shall be ca- 
pable of being chosen to sit in Parliament. This day, by an 
order of the House, Sir H. Vane* was sent out of town to his 
house in Lincolnshire. 

15th. No news to-day, but all quiet to see what the Par- 
liament will do about the issuing of the writs to-morrow for 
the filling up of the House, according to Monk’s desire. 

17th. To Westminster Hall, where I heard that some of 


1 Joseph Kirton was a bookseller in St. Paul’s Churchyard, at the 
sign of “The King’s Arms.” His death, in October, 1667, is recorded 
in Smith’s Obituary, printed for the Camden Society. 

2Thomas Lord Fairfax, mentioned before. He had succeeded to the 
Scotch Barony of Fairfax, of Cameron, on the death of his father, in 
1647; even after his accession to the title, he is frequently styled “ Sir 
Thomas,” in the pamphlets and papers of the day. 

$Sir H. Vane had married Frances, daughter of Sir Christopher 
Wray, of Ashby, Lincolnshire, Bart. 


24 DIARY OF [19th Feb. 


the members of the House were gone to meet some of the 
secluded members and General Monk in the City. Hence 
to White Hall, thinking to hear more news, where I met with 
Mr. Hunt, who told me how Monk had sent for all his goods 
that he had here, into the City; and yet again he told me, 
that some of the members of the House had this day laid in 
firing into their lodgings at Whitehall for a good while, so that 
we are at a great stand to think what will become of things, 
whether Monk will stand to the Parliament or no. Drank 
with Mr. Wotton, who told a great many stories of comedies 
that he had formerly seen acted, and the names of the prin- 
cipal actors, and gave me a very good account of it. 

18th. This day two soldiers were hanged in the Strand for 
their late mutiny at Somerset House.* 

19th. (Lord’s day.) To Mr. Gunning’s and heard an ex- 
lent sermon. Here I met with Mr. Moore, and went home 
with him to dinner, where he told me the discourse that hap- 
pened between the secluded members and the members of 
the House, before Monk, last Friday. How the secluded 
said, that they did not intend by coming in to express revenge 
upon these men, but only to meet and dissolve themselves, 
and only to issue writs for a free Parliament. He told me 
how Haselrigge® was afraid to have the candle carried before 
him, for fear that the people, seeing him, would do him hurt; 
and that he is afraid to appear in the City. That there is 
great likelihood that the secluded members will come in, 
and so Mr. Crewe and my Lord are likely to be great men, 
at which I was very glad. After dinner there was many se- 
cluded members come in to Mr. Crewe, which, it being the 
Lord’s day, did make Mr. Moore believe that there was some- 
thing extraordinary in the business. Mr. Mossum* made a 
very good sermon, but only too eloquent for a pulpit. 


1°°They were brought to the place of execution, which was at Cha- 
ring Cross, and over against Somerset House in the Strand, where were 
two gibbets erected. These men were the grand actors in the mutinies 
at Gravesend, at Somerset House, and in St. James’ Fields.”—Rugge’s 
Diurnal. 


?See Jan. 13th, 1659-60, and note. 


®This was in all probability Robert Mossom, author of several ser- 
mons preached in London, and printed about the time of the Resto- 
ration, who was in 1666 made Bishop of Derry. In the title page of 
his Apology in behalf of the Sequestered Clergy, printed in 1660 he 


’ 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 25 


20th. I went forth to Westminster Hall, where I met with 
Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory." They told me how the 
Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the writs for choice of new 
members in the place of the excluded; and by that means the 
writs could not go out to-day. In the evening, Simons and 
I to the Coffee Club [ Miles’s], where I heard Mr. Harrington 
and my Lord of Dorset and another Lord, talking of getting 
another place at the Cockpit, and they did believe it would 
come to something. The Club broke up very poorly, and I 
do not think they will meet any more. 

21st. In the morning I saw many soldiers going towards 
Westminster Hall, to admit the secluded members again. So 
I to Westminster Hall, and in Chancery I saw about twenty 
of them who had been at White Hall with General Monk, 
who came thither this morning, and made a speech* to them, 
and recommended to them a Commonwealth, and against 
Charles Stuart. They came to the House, and went in one 
after another, and at last the Speaker came. But it is very 
strange that this could be carried so private, that the other 
members of the House heard nothing of all this, till they 
found them in the House, insomuch that the soldiers that 
stood there to let in the secluded members, they took for such 
as they had ordered to stand there to hinder their coming in. 
Mr. Prin*® came with an old basket-hilt sword on, and had a 
great many shouts upon his going into the Hall. They sat 
till noon, and at their coming out, Mr. Crewe saw me, and 
bid me come to his house and dine with him, which I did; 
and he very joyful told me that the House had made Gene- 
ral Monk General of all the Forces in England, Scotland, and 
Ireland; and that upon Monk’s desire, for the service that 
Lawson had lately done in pulling down the Committee of 


calls himself “Preacher of God’s word at St. Peter’s, Paul’s Wharf, 
London.” See also Somers’s Tracts, vol. vii. p. 237, edit. 1748. 


*Mr. Gregory was, in 1672, Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham. 


* This remarkable speech is given at length by Rugge, who adds that 
about fourscore of the secluded members attended the first meeting of 
the House. It is highly probable that Monk had ascertained that they 
were ready to support him, before he committed himself to the Parlia- 
ment. 


* William Prynne, the lawyer, well known by his voluminous publi- 


cations and the persecutions which he endured. He was M.P. for 
Bath, 1660, and died 1669. 


26 DIARY OF [22nd Feb. 


Safety, he had the command of the Sea for the time being. 
He advised me to send for my Lord forthwith, and told me 
that there is no question that, if he will, he may now be em- 
ployed again; and that the House do intend to do nothing 
more than to issue writs, and to settle a foundation for a free 
Parliament. After dinner, I back to Westminster Hall, with 
him in his coach. Here I met with Mr. Lock’ and Pursell,” 
Master of Musique, and went with them to the Coffee House, 
into a room next the water, by ourselves, where we spent an 
hour or two until Captain Taylor come and told us that the 
House had voted the gates of the City to be made up again, 
and the members of the City*® that are in prison to be set at 
liberty; and that Sir G. Booth’s* case be brought into the 
House to-morrow. Here we had variety of brave Italian 
and Spanish songs, and a canon for eight voices, which Mr. 
Lock had lately made on these words: ‘* Domine salvum fac 
Regem.” Here out of the windows it was a most pleasan# 
sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory 
about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick 
round the City, and the bells rang everywhere. Mr. Fuller, 
of Christ’s, told me very freely the temper of Mr. Widdring- 
ton,” how he did oppose all the fellows in the College, and feared 
it would be little to my brother’s advantage to be his pupil. 

22d. Walking in the Hall, I saw Major-General Brown,°® 
who had a long time been banished by the Rump, but now, 


1See Feb. 10th, 1659-60. 


* Henry Purcell, father of the celebrated composer of the same name, 
who was born in 1658. 


3’ Richard Brown, William Wilde, John Robinson, and William Vin- 
cent. 

*Sir George Booth, Bart., of Dunham Massey, then a prisoner in 
the Tower, from which he was released the next day. In 1661 he was 
created Baron Delamer for his services to the King. 


5 Dr. Ralph Widdrington having been ejected from his fellowship by 
. the Master and Fellows of Christ’s College, Cambridge, October 28th, 
1661, sued out a mandamus to be restored to it; and the matter being 
referred to commissioners—“ The Bishop of London, the Lord Chan- 
cellor, and some of the judges”—he obtained restitution—Kennett’s 
Register, p. 552. 

°Richard Brown, a Major-General of the Parliament forces, Gover- 
nor of Abingdon, and Member for London in the Long Parliament, 
who had been imprisoned by the Rump faction. He is afterwards men- 
tioned (June 13th, 1665,) as Sir Richard Brown; not John Evelyn’s 
father-in-law of the same names. 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 27 


with his beard overgrown, he comes abroad and sat in the 
House. To White Hall, where I met with Will Simons and 
Mr. Mabbot, at Marsh’s, who told me how the House had 
this day voted that the gates of the City should be set up at 
the cost of the State; and that Major-General Brown’s being 
proclaimed a traitor be made void, and several other things 
of that nature. I observed this day how abominably Bare- 
bones’ windows are broke again last night. Mr. Pierce told 
me he would go with me to Cambridge, where Colonel Ayres’ 
regiment, to which he is surgeon, lieth. 

23d. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years. 
To Westminster Hall, where, after the House rose, I met 
with Mr. Crewe, who told me that my Lord was chosen by 
73 voices to be one of the Council of State. Mr. Pierpoint* 
had the most, 101, and himself the next, 100. 

24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scotland 
Yard, at Mr. Garthwayt’s stable, I rode to Mr. Pierce’s: we 
both mounted, and so set forth about seven of the clock; at 
Puckridge we baited, the way exceeding bad from Ware 
thither. Then up again and as far as Foulmer, within six 
miles of Cambridge, my mare being almost tired: here we 
lay at the Chequer. I lay with Mr. Pierce, who we left 
here the next morning, upon his going to Hinchingbroke,” to 
speak with my Lord, before his going to London, and we 
two come to Cambridge by eight o’clock in the morning. I 


1William Pierrepont, M.P. of Thoresby, second son to Robert, first 
Earl of Kingston, aged 71, ob. 1679. 


? Hinchingbrooke House, so often mentioned in the Diary, stood 
about half a mile to the westward of the town of Huntingdon. It was 
erected late in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the 
site of a Benedictine nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its 
appurtenances, to his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the 
name of Cromwell, and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and 
godfather of the Protector. The knight, who was renowned for his 
hospitality, had the honour of entertaining King James at Hinching- 
brooke, but, getting into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his 
estates, which were conveyed, 28th July, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu, 
of Barnwell, father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant 
they are still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, 
during the minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchingbrooke was almost 
entirely destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly 
saved, and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the 
interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, Esq., 


28 DIARY OF [27th Feb. 


went to Magdalene College, to Mr. Hill,’ with whom I found 
Mr. Zanchy,’ Burton,*® and Hollins, and took leave on pro- 
mise to sup with them. To the Three Tuns, where we drank 
pretty hard, and many healths to the King, &c.: then we 
broke up, and I and Mr. Zanchy went to Magdalene College, 
where a very handsome supper at Mr. Hill’s chambers, I 
suppose upon a club among them, where I could find that 
there was nothing at all left of the old preciseness in their 
discourse, especially on Saturday nights; and Mr. Zanchy 
told me that there was no such thing now-a-days among them 
at any time. 

25th. My father, brother, and I to Mr. Widdrington, at 
Christ’s College, who received us very civilly, and caused 
my brother to be admitted. 

26th. (Sunday.) My brother went to the College Chapel. 
At St. Botolph’s Church we heard Mr. Nicholas, of Queen’s 
College, who I knew in my time to be Tripos* with great 
applause, upon this text, “ For thy commandments are 
broad.” 'To Mr. Widdrington’s to dinner, where he used us 
very courteously. Found Mr. Pierce at our Inn, who told 
us that he had lost his journey, for my Lord was gone from 
Hinchingbroke to London on Thursday last, at which I was 
a little put to a stand. I went to Magdalene College, to get 


the certificate of the College for my brother’s entrance there, 


that he might save his year. 
27th. Up by four o’clock: Mr. Blayton and I took horse 
and straight to Saffron Walden, where, at the White Hart, 


1Joseph Hill, a native of Yorkshire, chosen in 1649 Fellow of Mag- 
dalene College, and in 1659 University Proctor: he afterwards retired 
to London, and, according to Calamy, was offered a bishopric by Charles 
II., which he declined, disliking the terms of conformity; and accept- 
ing a call to the English Church at Rotterdam in 1678, died there in 
1707, aged 83.—Nonconformists’ Memorial. 


?Clement Zanchy, or Sankey, scholar of Magdalene College, Cam- 
bridge, 1647; Fellow, 1654; described as of the city of London. 


3’ Hezekiah Burton, of Lound, Nottinghamshire, Pensioner of Mag- 
dalene College, Cambridge, 1647; Wray Fellow, 1651. 


*The Tripos was the person who made the disputation on Ash Wed- 
nesday, otherwise called the Bachelor of the stool. He was generally 
selected for his skill and readiness in the Disputation, and allowed great 
license of language, an indulgence often abused; and hence statutes 
were passed “de auferendis morionum ineptiis et scurrilibus jocis in 
disputationibus.” 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 29 


we set up our horses, and took the master of the house to 
show us Audley End House,* who took us on foot through 
the park, and so to the house, where the housekeeper showed 
us all the house, in which the stateliness of the ceilings, 
chimney-pieces, and form of the whole was exceedingly worth 
seeing. He took us into the cellar, where we drank most 
admirable drink, a health to the King. Here I played on 
my flageolette, there being an excellent echo. He showed 
us excellent pictures; two especially, those of the four 
Evangelists and Henry VIII. In our going, my landlord 
carried us through a very old hospital or almshouse, where 
forty poor people were maintained; a very old foundation ; 
and over the chimney-piece was an inscription in brass: 
* Orate pro animé Thome Bird,” &c.° They brought me a 
draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver, which 
I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin 
with the child in her arms, done in silver. So we took leave, 
the road pretty good, but the weather rainy to Epping. 

28th. Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to 
our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the 
same token the boy left the hole as big as it was before. 
Then to horse for London, through the forest, where we 
found the way good, but only in one path, which we 
kept as if we had rode through a kennel all the way. We 
found the shops all shut, and the militia of the red regiment 
in arms at the old Exchange, among whom I found and spoke 
to Nich. Osborne, who told me that it was a thanksgiving 
day through the City for the return of the Parliament. At 
Paul’s I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, where I found 
Dr. Reynolds* in the pulpit, and General Monk there, who 
was to have a great entertainment at Grocers’ Hall. I found 
my Lord at dinner, glad to see me. 

29th. To my office. Mr. Moore told me how my Lord 


1Then the residence of James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk. It 
was built by Thomas, the first earl, at the commencement of the seven- 
teenth century, and called after his maternal ancestor, Lord Chancellor 
Audley, to whom the monastery of Walden, the site of which is occu- 
pied by the present house, had been granted at the Dissolution. 

* Bryd in the original. 

®The inscription and the bowl are still to be seen in the almshouse. 

“Edward Reynolds, D.D., Dean of Christ Church, and afterwards 
Bishop of Norwich. He died, 1676: his works are well known. 


30 DIARY OF [2nd March, 


is chosen General at Sea by the Council, and that it is 
thought that Monk will be joined with him therein. This 
day my Lord came to the House, the first time since he 
come to town; but he had been at the Council before. My 
cousin Morton gave me a brave cup of metheglin, the first I 
ever drank. 

March Ist. Out of the box where my Lord’s pamphlets 
lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own 
use, and left the rest. I went to Mr. Crewe’s, whither Mr. 
Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. 
Yelverton,’ my old schoolfellow at Paul’s School, to bring 
the thanks of the county to General Monk for the return of 
the Parliament. 

2d. I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crewe’s, where I 
spoke to him. Here were a great many come to see him, as 
Secretary Thurloe,” who is now by the Parliament chosen 
again Secretary of State. To Westminster Hall, where I 
saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City 
militia is put into good posture, and it is thought that Monk 
will not be able to do any great matter against them now, if 
he had a mind. I understand that my Lord Lambert did 
yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that to-night he 
is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur 
Haselrigge do not yet appear in the House. Great is the 
talk of a single person, and that it would now be Charles, 
George, or Richard again;’ for the last of which, my Lord 
St. John* is said to speak high. Great also is the dispute 
now in the House, in whose name the writs shall run for the 
next Parliament; and it is said that Mr. Prin, in open 
House, said, “ In King Charles’s.” 


*Son of Sir Christopher Yelverton, the first Baronet, grandson of 
Sir Henry Yelverton, Judge C. P., author of the Reports. He married 
Susan, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, which title descended to his issue. 
His son was afterwards advanced to the dignity of Viscount Longueville, 
and his grandson to the Earldom of Sussex. The Yelverton Collection 
of MSS. belongs to Lord Calthorpe, whose ancestor married a daughter 
of the first Viscount Longueville. 


* John Thurloe, who had been Secretary of State to the two Protec- 
tors, but was never employed after the Restoration, though the King 
solicited his services. Ob. 1668. 

°Charles Stuart; George Monk; Richard Cromwell. 


* Oliver St. John; see Feb. 7, 1659-60, and note. 


1659-60] SAMUEL PEPYS 31 


3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord 
was last night voted one of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the 
other. I met my Lord in the Hall, who bid me come to him 
at noon. After dinner, I to Warwick House,’ in Holborne, 
to my Lord, where he dined with my Lord of Manchester,’ 
Sir Dudley North,*® my Lord Fiennes,* and my Lord Barkly.’ 
I staid in the great hall, talking with some gentlemen there, 
till they all come out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to 
Mr. Crewe’s, in our way talking of public things. He told 
me he feared there was new design hatching, as if Monk had 
a mind to get into the saddle. Returning, met with Mr. 
Gifford, who told me, as I hear from many, that things are 
in a very doubtful posture, some of the Parliament being 
' willing to keep the power in their hands. After I had left 
him, I met with Tom Harper; he talked huge high that my 
Lord Protector would come in place again, which indeed is 
much discoursed of again, though I do not see it possible. 


5th. To Westminster by water, only seeing Mr. Pinkny® 


1 Near Gray’s Inn, where Warwick Court now stands. 


The Parliamentary General, afterwards particularly instrumental in 
the King’s Restoration, became Chamberlain of the Household, K.G., 
a Privy Counsellor, and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He 
died in 1671, having been five times married. 


*Sir Dudley North, K.B., became the fourth Lord North, on the 
death of his father, in 1666. Ob. 1677. 


‘John, third son of William, first Viscount Say and Sele, and one of 
Oliver’s Lords. 


®George, thirteenth Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, created Earl of 
Berkeley 1679. There were at this time two Lord Berkeleys, each pos- 
sessing a town-house called after his name, which misled Pennant and 
other biographers following in his track. George, thirteenth Lord 
Berkeley of Berkeley, advanced to an Earldom in 1679, the Peer here 
spoken of, lived at Berkeley House, in the parish of St. John’s, Clerken- 
well, which had been in his family for three generations, and he had a 
country-seat at Durdans, near Epsom, mentioned by Evelyn and Pepys. 
His death took place in 1698. The other nobleman, originally known 
as Sir John Berkeley, and in the service of Charles I., created in 1658 
Baron Berkeley of Stratton, subsequently filled many high Offices in the 
State, and was in 1670 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and in 1674 went 
Ambassador to France, and died in 1678. He built a splendid man- 
sion in Piccadilly, called also Berkeley House, upon the site of which 
Devonshire House now stands. To prevent confusion, the words [of 
Stratton] will be added wherever his name occurs in these pages. 


®Probably Leonard Pinkney, who was Clerk of the Kitchen at the 
ensuing Coronation Feast. 


32 DIARY OF [6th March, 


at his own house, where he showed me how he had always 
kept the Lion and Unicorne, in the back of his chimney, 
bright, in expectation of the King’s coming again. At home 
I found Mr. Hunt, who told me how the Parliament had 
voted that the Covenant be printed and hung in churches 
again. Great hopes of the King’s coming again. 

6th. Shrove Tuesday. I called Mr. Shepley, and we both 
went up to my Lord’s lodgings at Mr. Crewe’s, where he 
bids us to go home again, and get a fire against an hour 
after; which we did, at White Hall, whither he came, and 
after talking with him about our going to sea, he called me 
by myself into the garden, where he asked me how things 
were with me. He bid me look out now at this turn some 
good place, and he would use all his own, and all the interest 
of his friends that he had in England, to do me good; and 
asked me whether I could, without too much inconvenience, 
go to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. He also 
began to talk of things of State, and told me that he should 
want one in that capacity at sea, that he might trust in, and 
therefore he would have me to go. He told me also, that he 
did believe the King would come in, and did discourse with 
me about it, and about the affection of the people and City, 
at which I was full glad. Mr. Hawley brought me a seaman 
that had promised 101. to him if he get him a purser’s place, 
which I think to endeavour to do. My uncle Tom inquires 
about the Knights of Windsor, of which he desires to be one. 
To see Mrs. Jem, at whose chamber door I found a couple of 
ladies, but she not being there, we hunted her out, and found 
that she and another had hid themselves behind a door. Well, 
they all went down into the dining-room, where it was full 
of tag, rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of 
which I was ashamed, and after I had staid a dance or two, I 
went away. Wrote by the post, by my Lord’s command, for 
I. Goods to come up presently; for my Lord intends to go 
forth with Goods to the Swiftsure till the Nazeby be ready. 
This day I hear that the Lords do intend to sit; a great store 
of them are now in town, and, I see, in the Hall to-day. 
Overton’ at Hull do stand out, but can, it is thought, do 
nothing; and Lawson, it is said, is gone with some ships 
thither, but all that is nothing. My Lord told me, that there 


*The Parliamentary General. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 33 


was great endeavours to bring in the Protector again; but 
he told me, too, that he did believe it would not last long if 
he were brought in; no, nor the King neither, (though he 
seems to think that he will come in) unless he carry himself 
very soberly and well. Everybody now drinks the King’s 
health without any fear, whereas before it was very private 
that a man dare do it. Monk this day is feasted at Mercers’ 
Hall, and is invited, one after another, to the twelve Halls 
in London. Many think that he is honest yet, and some or 
more think him to be a fool that would raise himself, but 
think that he will undo himself by endeavouring it. 

7th. (Ash Wednesday.) Washington told me, upon my 
question whether he knew of any place now ready that I 
might have by power over friends, that this day Mr. G. 
Montagu’ was to be made Custos Rotulorum for Westmin- 
ster, and that I might get to be named by him Clerk of the 
Peace; but my Lord he believes Mr. Montagu had already 
promised it, and that it was given him only that he might 
gratify one person with the place I look for. Going home- 
ward, my Lord overtook me in his coach, and called me in, 
and so I went with him to St. James’s, and G. Montagu 
being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Park thither, 
all the way he discoursing of the times, and of the change 
of things since the last year, and wondering how he could 
bear with so great disappointment as he did. He did give 
me the best advice that he could what was best for me, 
whether to stay or go with him, and offered all the ways 
that could be, how he might do me good, with the greatest 
liberty and love that could be. This day, according to order, 
Sir Arthur’? appeared at the House; what was done I know 
not, but there was all the Rumpers almost come to the 
House to-day. My Lord did seem to wonder much why 
Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, and 
thinks he has some design in it; but I think that he is so 
poor that he cannot use his liberty for debts, if he were at 
liberty; and so it is as good and better for him to be there, 
than any where else. My father left my uncle with his leg 


*George Montagu, fifth son of Henry, first Earl of Manchester, after- 
wards M.P. for Dover, and father of the first Earl of Halifax. He was 
youngest brother of Lord Manchester, mentioned in page 30. See also 
Jan. 22, 1661-62, and note. ? Haselrigge. 


VOL. I. D 


34 DIARY OF [9th March, 


very dangerous, and do believe he cannot continue long. 
My uncle did acquaint him, that he did intend to make me 
his heir, and give my brother Tom something, [and to leave ] 
something to raise portions for Joh. and Pall." I pray God 
he may be as good as his word: 'This news and my Lord’s 
great kindness makes me very cheerful within. 

8th. To Westminster Hall, where there was a general 
damp over men’s minds and faces upon some of the Officers 
of the Army being about making a remonstrance upon 
Charles Stuart or any single person; but at noon it was 
told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all was well 
again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to bring me to 
my Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, 
he comes out to me and gives me directions to look after 
getting some money for him from the Admiralty, seeing 
that things are so unsafe, that he would not lay out a 
farthing for the State, till he had received some money of 
their’s. This afternoon some of the Officers of the Army, 
and some of the Parliament, had a conference at White 
Hall, to make all right again, but I know not what is done. 
At the Dog’ Tavern, Captain Philip Holland, with whom I 
advised how to make some advantage of my Lord’s going to 
sea, told me to have five or six servants entered on board as 
dead men, and I to give them what wages I pleased and so 
their pay to be mine; he also urged me to take the Secre- 
tary’s place that my Lord did proffer me. Then in comes 
Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry, secretary to the plenipotentiary 
in Denmark, who brought the news of the death of the 
King of Sweden*® at Gottenburgh, the 3rd of last month, and 
he told me what a great change he found when he came 
here, the secluded members being restored. 

9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westmin- 
ster with him in the coach; and Mr. Dudley and he in the 
Painted Chamber walked a good while; and I telling him 
that I was willing and ready to go with him to sea, he agreed 
that I should, and advised me what to write to Mr. Down- 
ing about it. This day it was resolved that the writs do go 


*John and Paulina Pepys, our author’s brother and sister. 

7A house still existing in Holywell Street in the Strand bears this 
name, but from mention elsewhere, the Dog Tavern here recorded must 
have been in Westminster. * Charles Gustavus. 


x 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 35 


out in the name of the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear 
that it is resolved privately that a treaty be offered with the 
King; and that Monk did check his soldiers highly for what 
they did yesterday. 

10th. To my father in his cutting’ house, and told him 
my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, and we resolved 
of letting my wife be at Mr. Bowyer’s.” 

12th. Rode to Huntsmore* to Mr. Bowyer’s, where I 
found him, and all well, and willing to have my wife come 
and board with them while I was at sea. Here I lay, and 
took a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg, scraped for my cold, 
by Mr. Bowyer’s direction. 

13th. At my Lord’s lodgings, who told me that I was to 
be secretary, and Crewe deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at 
which I was troubled, but I could not help it. This day 
the Parliament voted all that had been done by the former 
Rump against the House of Lords to be void, and to-night 
that the writs go out without any qualification. Things 
seem very doubtful what will be the end of all; for the 
Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while the sol- 
diers do all talk against. 

14th. To my Lord’s, where infinity of applications to him 
and to me. To my great trouble, my Lord gives me all the 
papers that was given to him, to put in order and to give 
him an account of them. Here I got half a piece of a person 
of Mr. Wright’s recommending to my Lord, to be Chaplain 
of the Speaker frigate. I went hence to St. James’s, to 
speak with Mr. Clerke,* Monk’s secretary, about getting 
some soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which 
my Lord told me he did to do a courtesy to the town, that 
he might have the greater interest in them, in the choice of 
the next Parliament; not that he intends to be chosen him- 
self, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord 
Mandeville® chose there in spite of the Bernards.* This done, 


* He was a tailor. 

?Mr. Bowyer had probably remarried Mrs. Pepys’s mother. 

*See 8th May following. 

‘Clement Clerke, of Lawnde Abbey, co. Leicester, created a Baronet 
in 1661. 5 Eldest son of the Earl of Manchester. 

® Robert Bernard, created a Baronet in 1662, served in parliament 
for Huntingdon, before and after the Restoration, and died in 1666. 
His son and successor, Sir John Bernard, the second baronet, at the 


pd @ 


36 DIARY OF [17th March, 


I saw General Monk, and methought he seemed a dull heavy 
man. I did promise to give my wife all that I have in the 
world, but my books, in case I should die at sea. After 
supper, I went to Westminster Hall, and the Parliament 
sat till ten at night, thinking and being expected to dissolve 
themselves to-day, but they did not. Great talk to-night 
that the discontented officers did think this night to make a 
stir, but prevented. 

15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with 
the rest of my Lord’s. At Will’s I met Tom Alcock, one 
that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had not 
seen him these sixteen years. 

16th. To Westminster Hall, where I heard how the Par- 
liament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass very 
cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker without his 
mace. The whole Hall was joyful thereat, as well as them- 
selves, and now they begin to talk loud of the King. To- 
night I am told, that yesterday, about five o’clock in the 
afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great* Exchange, 
and wiped with a brush the inscription that was on King 
Charles, and that there was a great bonfire made in the Ex- 
change, and people called out, “* God bless King Charles the 
Second! ””” 

17th. This day, before I went out with my wife, I did 
seal my will to her, whereby I did give her all that I have 
in the world, but my books, which I give to my brother 


time of his death, in 1669, was one of the Knights of the Shire for the 
county of Huntingdon. The inscription upon his monument in 
Brampton Church is given in the Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i. p. 
113. Sir Nicholas Pedley, who was also burgess for Huntingdon, mar- 
ried a daughter of Sir Robert Bernard. 


*So called during the Commonwealth, in lieu of Royal. 


2Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the 
statue of Charles I., in the Royal Exchange (Ewit tyrannus, Regum ulti- 
mus, anno libertatis Angliw, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) was 
washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, and with 
a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down his pot and 
brush, and said it should never do him any more service, in regard that 
it had the honour to put out rebels’ hand-writing. He then came down, 
took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it 
was done was not then known. The merchants were glad and joyful, 
many people were gathered together, and against the Exchange made a 
bonfire.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 37 


John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to 
have. 

18th. (Lord’s day.) I gave Captain Williamson his com- 
mission to be Captain of the Harp, and he gave me a piece 
of gold, and 20s. in silver. To Mr. Mossum’s, where he 
made a very gallant sermon upon “ Pray for the life of the 
King, and the King’s son.” 

19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, 
which makes my head full; and, indeed, for these two or 
three days I have not been without a great many cares. 
After that, to the Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. 
Blackburne, who told me that it was much to be feared that 
the King would come in, for all good men and good things 
were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson’s, where Mr. 
Shepley and I dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord 
Monk’s life-guard come by with the Sergeant-at-Arms before 
them, with two Proclamations, that all Cavaliers do depart 
the town; but the other, that all officers that were lately 
disbanded should do the same. The last of which Mr. R. 
Creed,* I remember, said, that he looked upon it as if they 
had said, that all God’s people should depart the town. All 
the discourse now-a-day is, that the King will come again; 
and for all I see, it is the wishes of all; and all do believe 
that it will be so. My mind is still much troubled for my 
poor wife, but I hope that this undertaking will be worth 
my pains. This day, my Lord dined at my Lord Mayor’s 
[Allen], and Jaspar was made drunk, which my Lord was 
very angry at. 

20th. I took a short melancholy leave of my father and 
mother, without having them to drink, or say anything of 
business one to another. At Westminster, by reason of rain 
and an easterly wind, the water was so high that there was 
boats rowed in King Street, and all our yards was drowned, 
that one could not go to my house,” so as no man has seen 
the like almost, and most houses full of water.* 


*Major Richard Creed, who commanded a troop under Lambert 
when that general surrendered to Ingoldsby; see 24 April following. 
He was imprisoned with the rest of the officers, but his name does not 
recur in the Diary, nor is it known whether he was related to John 
Creed, so frequently mentioned hereafter. 

*In Axe Yard, King Street, Westminster. See note to p. 1 of this 
volume. 

*“TIn this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, 


38 DIARY OF [23d March, 


21st. To my Lord’s, but the wind very high against us; 
here I did very much business, and then to my Lord Wid- 
drington’s from my Lord, with his desire that he might have 
the disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was 
very civil to me, and called for wine, and writ a long letter 
in answer. 

22d. To Westminster, and received my warrant of Mr. 
Blackburne, to be Secretary to the two Generals of the 
Fleet. Strange how these people do now promise me any- 
thing; one a rapier, the other a vessel of wine, or a gun, and 
one offered me a silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I 
pray God to keep me from being proud, or too much lifted 
up hereby. 

23d. Carried my Lord’s will in a black box to Mr. W. 
Montagu,’ for him to keep for him. My Lord, Captain 
Isham,” Mr. Thomas, John Crewe, W. Howe, and I to the 
Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lord and the 
Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c., in the other, to 
the Long Reach, where the Swiftsure® lay at anchor; (in 
our way, we saw the great breach which the late high water 
had made, to the loss of many 10001. to the people about 
Limehouse.) Soon as my Lord on board, the guns went off 
bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes the 
Vice Admiral Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my 
Lord, and so did the rest of the Commanders of the frigates 
that were thereabouts. We were late writing of orders for 
the getting of ships ready, &c.; and also making of others to 
all the sea-ports between Hastings and Yarmouth, to stop 
all dangerous persons that are going or coming between 
Flanders and there. The cabin allotted to me was the best 
that any had that belonged to my Lord. 


so that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King 
Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and 
twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon 
the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that re- 
port said, there was 20,000]. worth of harm done.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


1 William, second son of the first Lord Montagu of Boughton, and 
first cousin to Sir Edward Montagu. He was afterwards Lord Chief 
Baron. Ob. 1707, zt. 89. 


2 Sir Sidney Montagu, the father of “my Lord,” had married for his 
second wife one of the Isham family, of Lamport. 


*Commanded by Captain, after Sir Richard Stayner. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 39 


24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the 
Council, &c. Mr. Creed’ came on board, and dined very 
boldly with my Lord. The boy Eliezer flung down a can of 
beer upon my papers, which made me give him a box of the 
ear, it having cost me a great deal of work. 

25th. (Lord’s day.) About two o’clock in the morning, 
letters came from London by our coxon, so they waked me, 
but I bid him stay till morning, which he did, and then I 
rose and carried them into my Lord, who read them a-bed. 
Among the rest, there was the writ and mandate for him to 
dispose to the Cinque Ports for Choice of Parliament-men. 
There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with 
his own hand superscribes it to S. P., Esq.,” of which God 
knows I was not a little proud. I wrote a letter to the 
Clerk of Dover Castle, to come to my Lord about issuing 
of those writs. Mr. Ibbott® prayed, and preached a good 
sermon. At dinner, I took place of all but the Captain. 
After that, sermon again, at which I slept, God forgive me! 

26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that 
I was cut for the stone at Mrs. Turner’s in Salisbury Court; 
and did resolve while I live to keep it a festival, as I did the 
last year at my house, and for ever to have Mrs. ‘Turner and 
her company with me. But now it pleased God that I am 
prevented to do it openly; only within my soul I can and do 
rejoice, and bless God, being at this time, blessed be his holy 
name, in as good health as ever I was in my life. This 
morning I rose early, and went about making of an establish- 
ment of the whole Fleet, and a list of all the ships, with the 
number of men and guns. About an hour after that, we 
had a meeting of the principal commanders and seamen, to 
proportion out the number of these things. All the after- 
noon very many orders were made, till I was very weary. 
At night, the Captain [Cuttance] came, and sat drinking 


1John Creed, who, having been a puritan, had been averse to the 
King’s coming in. 

?Pepys was not a little proud of being addressed as S. P., Esquire. 
In fifty years afterwards (as we find from Steele’s pleasant paper in the 
Tatler, No. 19) we were become populus armigerorum: every pretender 
admitted into the fraternity. Who is now excluded? This entry, and 
Pepys’s pride, in 1666, in having a spare bed, are among those minute 
details which render the Diary so valuable as a history of manners, 


’Edmund Ibbott, S.T.B., in 1662 made rector of Deal. Ob. 1677. 


40 DIARY OF [28th March, 


[with us] till eleven, a kindness he do not often do the 
greatest officer in the ship. 

27th. This morning, the wind came about, and we fell 
into the Hope; and in our passing by the vice-admiral, he, 
and the rest of the frigates did give us many guns, and we 
him, and the report of them broke all the windows in my 
cabin. I sat the first time with my Lord at table since my 
coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing 
of letters and orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright* 
come on board us, about his business of being chosen a 
Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to see my cabin, 
where I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord 
too, with the Captain. 

28th. This morning and the whole day busy. At night, 
there was a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, 
going for Flushing, who spoke French and Latin very well, 
brought by direction from Captain Clerke hither, as a 
prisoner, because he called out of the vessel that he went 
in, ‘‘Where is your King, we have done our business, 
Vive le Roi!” He confessed himself a Cavalier in his 
heart, and that he and his whole family had fought for the 
King; but that he was then drunk, having been taking 
his leave at Gravesend the night before, and so could not 
remember what it was that he said; but in his words 
and carriage showed much of a gentleman. My Lord had a 
great kindness for him, but did not think it safe to 
release him, though he had a supper in the master’s cabin. 
But a while after, he sent a letter down to my Lord, which 
my Lord did like very well, and did advise with me that 
the gentleman was to be released. So I went up and sat 
and talked with him in Latin and French; and about eleven 
at night he took boat again, and so God bless him. This day 
we had news of the election at Huntingdon for Bernard’ and 
Pedly, at which my Lord was much troubled for his friends’ 
missing of it. 

1M.P. for Harwich; created a Baronet by Cromwell, 1658, and by 
Charles II., 1660. He married Anne, daughter of Lord Crewe, and 
sister to Sir E. Montagu’s wife, and resided at Dagenham, Hssex. 

* John Bernard and Nicholas Pedley, re-elected in the next Parlia- 
ment. The latter had been a Commissioner of the Wine Office. Sir 


E. Montagu had set up his eldest son and G. Montagu as candidates. 
See ante, March 14th, and note. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 41 


29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night 
Mr. Shepley returned from London, and told us of several 
elections for the next Parliament. That the King’s effigies 
was new making to be set up in the Exchange again. This 
evening was a great whispering that some of the Vice- 
Admiral’s captains were dissatisfied, and did intend to fight 
themselves, to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, 
and the Vice-Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and 
protested to stand by the General. 

30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from 
some that I had done a favour to, which brought me in each 
a piece of gold. This day, while my Lord and we were at 
dinner, the Nazeby came in sight towards us, and at last 
come to anchor close by us. My Lord and many others 
went on board her, where everything was out of order, and 
a new chimney made for my Lord in his bed-chamber, which 
he was much pleased with. My Lord, in his discourse, dis- 
covered a great deal of love to this ship.* 

April 1st, (Lord’s day.) This morning, I gave Mr. Hill, 
that was on board with the Vice-Admiral, a bottle of wine, 
and was exceedingly satisfied with the power I have to make 
my friends welcome. Mr. Ibbot preached very well. After 
dinner, my Lord did give me a private list of all the ships 
that were to be set out this summer, wherein I do discover 
that he hath made it his care to put by as much of the 
Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and my being 
busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, 
it was four o’clock before we could begin sermon again. ‘This 
day, Captain Guy come on board from Dunkirk, who tells 
me that the King will come in, and that the soldiers at 
Dunkirk do drink the King’s health in the streets. I made 
a commission for Captain Wilgness, of the Bear, to-night, 
which got me 30s. 

2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy’s 
packed up. Great concourse of commanders here this 
morning, to take leave of my Lord upon his going into the 
Nazeby. My cabin little, but very convenient, with two 
windows and a good bed. This morning comes Mr. Edward 


1Sir E. Montagu’s flag had been on board the Naseby when he went 
to the Sound, 


42 DIARY OF [4th April, 


Pickering,’ like a coxcomb as he always was he tells me 
that the King will come in, but that Monk did resolve to 
have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it. 

3d. There come many merchants to get convoy to the 
Baltique, which a course was taken for. They dined with 
my Lord, and one of them, by name Alderman Wood, talked 
much to my Lord of the hopes that he had now to be settled, 
(under the King, he meant) ; but my Lord took no notice of 
it. This day come the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, who was 
sent by my Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque Ports, to 
have got Mr. Edward Montagu to have been one of their 
burgesses, but could not, for they were all promised be- 
fore. My heart exceeding heavy for not hearing of my dear 
wife. 

4th. This morning come Colonel Thomson with the wooden 
leg, and General Pen, and dined with my Lord and Mr. 
Blackburne, who told me that it was certain now that the 
King must of necessity come in, and that one of the Council 
told him there is something doing in order to a treaty already 
among them. And it was strange to hear how Mr. Black- 
burne did already begin to commend him for a sober man, 
and how quiet he would be under his government, &c. 
The Commissioners come to-day, only to consult about a 
further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as 
they can. At night, my Lord resolved to send the Captain 
of our ship to Waymouth, and promote his being chosen 


*Younger brother of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., born 1618, and 
bred to the law; and in 1681 a resident in Lincoln’s Inn. He married 
Dorothy, one of the daughters of Sir John Weld, of Arnolds, in Ed- 
monton, Middlesex, and died in 1698, s. p. s.: his widow survived till 
December, 1707. Roger North (“Life of Lord Keeper Guildford,” 
1742, p. 58) has drawn a very unfavourable picture of Edward Picker- 
ing, calling him a subtle fellow, a money-hunter, a great trifler, and 
avaricious, but withal a great pretender to puritanism, frequenting the 
Rolls’ Chapel, and most busily writing the sermon in his hat, that he 
might not be seen. We learn from the same authority that Sir John 
Cutts, of Childerley, having left his aunt, Mrs. Edward Pickering, an 
estate worth 300/, per annum, for ninety-nine years, if she should so long 
live, her husband, who was the executor, erased from the will the words 
of reference to her life, with intention to possess himself of the property 
for the term, absolutely, which fraud being suspected, the question was 
tried in a court of law, and the jury without hesitation found Pickering 
the author of the erasure, before the publication of the will. 


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there, which he did put himself into readiness to do the next 
morning. 

5th. We set sail at noon, and come in the evening to Lee 
roads and anchored. ‘To the castles’ about Deal, where our 
fleet lay, and anchored; great was the shoot of guns from 
the castles, and ships, and our answers. 

6th. Under sail as far as the Spitts. 

7th. The wind grew high, and we, being among the sands, 
lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and squeamish. 

8th. (Lord’s day.) The lieutenant and I looked through 
his glass at two merchantmen, and at the women on board 
them, being pretty handsome. 

9th. In sight of the North and South Forelands. This 
afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which I was 
much pleased, though it was at a distance. 

10th. Most of the commanders in the fleet came on board, 
and the Vice-Admiral to us, who sat and talked, and seemed 
a very good-natured man. 

11th. Lord Goring’ returned from France, and landed at 
Dover. A gentleman came from my Lord of Manchester to 
my Lord for a pass for Mr. Boyle,’ which was made him. 
All the news from London is that things go on further 
towards a King. ‘That the Skinners’ Company the other day, 
at their entertaining of General Monk,* had took down the 
Parliament Arms in their Hall, and set up the King’s. My 
Lord and I had a great deal of discourse about the several 
Captains of the Fleet and his interest among them, and had 
his mind clear to bring in the King. He confessed to me 
that he was not sure of his own Captain [Cuttance], to be 


*The castles were Walmer, Sandgate, Sandwich, Deal, and Dover. 


?Charles, who succeeded his father as second Earl of Norwich. He 
had been banished eleven years before by the Parliament for heading 
an army, and keeping the town of Colchester for the use of the King. 
At his first coming he went to the Council of State, and had leave to 
remain in London, provided he did not disturb the peace of the nation. 
—Rugge’s Diurnal, 


*The celebrated Robert Boyle, youngest son of Richard, first Earl 
of Cork. 


“His Excellency had now dined at nine of the chief Halls; at every 
Hall there was after dinner a kind of stage-play, and many pretty con- 
ceits, and dancing and singing, and many shapes and ghosts, and the 
like, and all to please Lord Monk.—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


hd DIARY OF [sth April, 


true to him, and that he did not like Captain [John] Stokes. 
Came two letters from my dear wife. 

12th. Weather bad. Twenty strangers aboard. 

14th. This day I was informed that my Lord Lambert is 
got out of the Tower,’ and that there is 1001. proffered to 
whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State. My 
Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had 
his freedom brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port 
of Dover, by which he is capable of being elected for them. 
This day I heard that the Army had in general declared to 
stand by what the next Parliament shall do. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) To sermon, and then to dinner, where 
my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge had a 
mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased him- 
self with, to think that they do look upon him as a thriving 
man, and said so openly at table. At dinner-time, Mr. Cooke 
came back from London with a packet which caused my 
Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night he bid me 
privately to get two commissions ready, one for Captain 
Robert Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room 
of Captain Dekings, an Anabaptist, and one that had wit- 
nessed a great deal of discontent with the present proceed- 
ings. The other for Captain Coppin to come out of that 
into the Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive 
that General Monk do resolve to make a thorough change, 


*The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on 
the 11th inst., as related by Rugge:—That about eight of the clock at 
night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid 
down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were 
ready to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away. She who 
made the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder 
when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed 
Colonel Lambert’s place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the said 
warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he found 
the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John Lambert, he 
said, “ Good night, my Lord.” To which a seeming voice replied, and 
prevented all further jealousies. The next morning, on coming to un- 
lock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, “In the name of God, 
Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord Lambert?” She said, 
“He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.” Whereupon he caused her 
to rise, and carried her before the officer in the Tower, and [she] was 
committed to custody. Some said that a lady knit for him a garter of 
silk, by which he was conveyed down, and that she received 100/. for 
her pains, 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 45 


to make way for the King. From London I hear that, 
since Lambert got out of the Tower, the Fanatiques had 
held up their heads high, but I hope all that will come to 
nothing. 

17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the 
Vice-Admiral* and the Rear-Admiral,’ wherein my Lord was 
very careful to express the utmost of his own power, com- 
manding them to obey what orders they should receive from 
the Parliament, &c., or both or either of the Generals.* My 
Lord told me clearly his thoughts that the King would carry 
it, and that he did think himself very happy that he was now 
at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he thought he might 
do his country some service in keeping things quiet. My 
Lord did give the Vice-Admiral his commission. 

18th. Mr. Cooke returned from London, bringing me this 
news, that the Cavaliers are something unwise to talk so high 
on the other side as they do. That the Lords do meet every 
day at my Lord Manchester’s, and resolve to sit the first day 
of the Parliament. That it is evident now that the General 
and the Council do resolve to make way for the King’s 
coming. And it is clear that either the Fanatiques must 
now be undone, or the gentry and citizens throughout Eng- 
land, and clergy must fall, in spite of their militia and army, 
which is not at all possible, I think. Mr. Edward Montagu 
come on board, making no stay at all. Sir R. Stayner, Mr. 
Shepley, and as many of my Lord’s people as could be spared, 
went to Dover, to get things ready for the Election to- 
morrow. 

19th. At dinner, news brought us that my Lord was 
chosen at Dover. 

20th. This evening come Mr. Boyle on board, for whom 
I writ an order for a ship to transport him to Flushing. He 
supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a person of 

*Sir John Lawson. 

?Sir Richard Stayner, knighted and made a Vice-Admiral by Crom- 
well, 1657, and after the Restoration sent to command at Tangier till 
the Governor arrived. 

’Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York 
as High Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Com- 
manders of the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from 


Sir ee himself, or from the Rump Parliament.—Kennett’s Register, 
p. 1 


46 DIARY OF [2Ist April, 


honour. Mr. Shepley told me that he heard for certain at 
Dover that Mr. Edward Montagu’ did go beyond sea when 
he was here first the other day, and I am apt to believe that 
he went to speak with the King. This day, one told me how 
that at the election at Cambridge for knights of the shire, 
Wendby and Thornton, by declaring to stand for the Parlia- 
ment and a King and the settlement of the Church, did carry 
it against all expectation against Sir Dudley North and Sir 
Thomas Willis.” 

21st. This day dined Sir John Boys® and some other gen- 
tlemen, formerly great Cavaliers, and among the rest one Mr. 
Norwood,’ for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to 
the Brill, but he is certainly going to the King; for my Lord 
commanded me that I should not enter his name in my 
book. My Lord do show them and that sort of people great 
civility. All their discourse and others are of the King’s 
coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely; and heard 
how in many churches in London, and upon many signs 
there, and upon merchants’ ships in the river, they had set 
up the King’s arms. This night there came one with a letter 
from Mr. Edward Montagu to my Lord, with command to 
deliver it to his own hands. I do believe that he do carry 
some close business on for the King. This day I had a large 
letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account of the present 
dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning of the 
Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit 
with the Commons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet, 
which, whether it be granted or no, or whether they will sit 
or no, it will bring a great many inconveniences. His letter 
I keep, it being a very well writ one. 

22d. (Easter Sunday.) Several Londoners, strangers, 
friends of the Captains, dined here, who, among other things, 
told us, how the King’s Arms are every day set up in houses 
and churches, particularly in Allhallows’ Church in 'Thames 


‘Eldest son of Edward, second Lord Montagu, of Boughton, killed 
at Bergen, 1665. 

* He had represented Cambridgeshire in the preceding Parliament. 

*Of Sandwich, gentleman of the Privy Chamber. 

*A Major Norwood had been Governor of Dunkirk; and a person 
of the same name occurs, as one of the Esquires of the body at the 
Coronation of Charles II. Probably, he was Richard Norwood of 
Dane’s Court, in the Isle of Thanet. See Dec. 1, 1662. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 47 


Street, John Simpson’s church, which, being privately done, 
was a great eyesore to his people when they came to church 
and saw it. Also, they told us for certain, that the King’s 
statue is making by the Mercers’ Company, (who are bound 
to do it’) to set up in the Exchange. 

23d. I had 40s. given me by Captain Cowes of the Paragon. 
In the evening, for the first time, extraordinary good sport 
among the seamen, after my Lord had done playing at nine- 
pins. That being done, he fell to singing a song upon the 
Rump, to the tune of “ The Blacksmith.” 

24th. To dine with the Vice-Admiral* on board the London, 
which had a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but 
not so rich. After that, with the Captain on board our own 
ship, where we were saluted with the news of Lambert’s 
being taken, which news was brought to London on Sunday 
last. He was taken in Northamptonshire by Colonel In- 
goldsby,* at the head of a party, by which means their whole 
design is broke, and things now very open and safe; and 
every man begins to be merry and full of hopes. 

25th. Dined to-day with Captain Robert Clerke on board 
the Speaker, (a very brave ship*) where was the Vice-Admi- 
ral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After 
dinner, home, not a little contented to see how I am treated, 
and with what respect made a fellow to the best commander 
in the Fleet. 

26th. This day come Mr. Donne® back from London, who 
brought letters with him that signify the meeting of the Par- 
liament yesterday. And in the afternoon, by other letters, I 
hear, that about twelve of the Lords met and had chosen my 
Lord of Manchester Speaker of the House of Lords (the 

* As trustees for Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of the Royal Ex- 
change. 

?Sir John Lawson: see April 17, ante. 

*Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, Governor of Oxford under his kinsman 
Cromwell. He signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I.; 
but was pardoned for the service here mentioned, and made K.B. at the 
Coronation of Charles II. He afterwards retired to his seat at Lethen- 
borough, Bucks, and dying 16th Sept., 1685, was buried in the church 
of Hartwell, near Aylesbury. 

‘Of fifty-two guns; afterwards named the Mary: see May 23, 1660. 

° Probably, Thomas Lanes, at that time one of the Admiralty mes- 
sengers, 


48 DIARY OF [27th April, 


young Lords that never sat yet do forbear to sit for the pre- 
sent) ; and Sir Harbottle Grimston,’ Speaker for the House 
of Commons, which, after a little debate, was granted. Dr. 
Reynolds preached before the Commons before they sat. My 
Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton’ (formerly my school- 
fellow) was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire, 
and Mr. Crewe in the second; and told me how he did be- 
lieve that the Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the 
Presbyterians. 

27th. This morning, Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, 
putting a great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner, came 
on board Sir Thomas Hatton® and Sir R. Maleverer,* going 
for Flushing; but all the world know that they go where the 
rest of the many gentlemen go that every day flock to the 
King at Breda. They supped here, and my Lord treated them, 
as he do the rest that go thither, with a great deal of civility. 
While we were at supper a packet came, wherein much news 
from several friends. The chief is, that that I had from Mr. 
Moore, viz., that he fears that the Cavaliers in the House will 
be so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House 
and fall in with General Monk, and so offer things to the 
King so high on the Presbyterian account that he may refuse, 
and so they will endeavour some more mischief; but when I 
told my Lord it, he shook his head, and told me that the 
Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainly for 
the King’s interest, and so they will not be able to prevail 
that way with him. After supper, the two knights went on 
board the Grantham, that is to convey them to Flushing. 
I am informed that the Exchequer is now so low, that there 
is not 201. there, to give the messenger that brought the news 
of Lambert’s being taken; which story is very strange that 
he should lose his reputation of being a man of courage now 
at one blow, for that he was not able to fight one stroke, but 
desired of Colonel Ingoldsby several times to let him escape. 
Late reading my letters, my mind being much troubled to 


* Ancestor of the Earls of Verulam. He was made Master of the 
Rolls, November following, and died 1683. 

*Of Easton Mauduit, Bart., grandson to the Attorney-General of 
both his names. Ob. 1679. See p. 30, ante. 

*Of Long Stanton, co. Cambridge, Bart. 

*Of Allerton Maleverer, Yorkshire, Bart. 


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think that, after all our hopes, we should have any cause to 
fear any more disappointments therein. 

29th. (Sunday.) After sermon in the morning, Mr. 
Cooke came from London with a packet, bringing news how 
all the young lords that were not in arms against the Parlia- 
ment do now sit. That a letter is come from the King to 
the House, which is locked up by the Council till next 
Thursday, that it may be read in the open House when they 
meet again, they having adjourned till then to keep a fast 
to-morrow. And so the contents are not yet known. 
13,0001. of the 20,0001. given to General Monk is paid out 
of the Exchequer, he giving 12/. among the teller’s clerks of 
Exchequer. My Lord called me into the great cabin below, 
where he told me that the Presbyterians are quite mastered 
by the Cavaliers, and that he fears Mr. Crewe did go a little 
too far the other day in keeping out the young lords from 
sitting. That he do expect that the king should be brought 
over suddenly, without staying to make any terms at all, 
saying that the Presbyterians did intend to have brought 
him in with such conditions as if he had been in chains. 
But he shook his shoulders when he told me how Monk had 
betrayed them, for it was Monk that did put them upor 
standing to put out the lords and other members that come 
not within the qualifications, which Montagu did not like, 
but however Monk had done his business, though it be with 
some kind of baseness. After dinner, I walked a great while 
upon the deck with the chirurgeon and purser, and other 
officers of the ship, and they all pray for the King’s coming, 
which I pray God send. 

30th. Mr. Shepley and I got my Lord’s leave to go on 
shore, it being very pleasant in the fields, but a very pitiful 
town Deal is. 

May Ist. It being a very pleasant day, I wished myself 
in Hyde Park. At supper, hearing a great noise, we all 
rose, and found it was to save the coxon of the Cheriton, 
who, dropping overboard, was drowned. To-day, I hear 
they were very merry at Deal, setting up the king’s flags 
upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his health upon 
their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which 
the soldiers of the Castle threatened, but durst not op- 
pose. 

VOL. I. E 


50 DIARY OF [2nd May, 
2d. Mr. Donne from London, with letters that tell us 


the welcome news of the Parliament’s votes yesterday, 
which will be remembered for the happiest Mayday that 
hath been many a year to England. The King’s letter was 
read in the House, wherein he submits himself and all 
things to them, as to an Act of Oblivion to all, unless they 
shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the sales 
of the King’s and Church lands, if they see good. The 
House, upon reading the letter, ordered 50,0001. to be forth- 
with provided to send to His Majesty for his present supply; 
and a committee chosen to return an answer of thanks to 
His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the letter be 
kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this 
not so much as one No. So that Luke Robinson’ himself 
stood up, and made a recantation for what he had done, and ° 
promises to be a loyal subject to his Prince for the time to 
come. The City of London have put out a Declaration, 
wherein they do disclaim their owning any other govern- 
ment but that of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks 
were given by the House to Sir John Greenville,’ one of 
the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and 
they continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon 
notice from the Lords to the Commons, of their desire that 
the Commons would join with them in their vote for King, 
Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur, and 
voted that all books whatever that are out against the 
Government of Kings, Lords, and Commons, should be 
brought into the House and burned. Great joy all yester- 
day at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, and 
ringing of bells and drinking of the King’s health upon 
their knees in the streets, which methinks is a little too 
much. But everybody seems to be very joyful in the busi- 
ness, insomuch that our sea-commanders now begin to say so 
too, which a week ago they would not do.* And our sea- 


10f Pickering Lyth, in Yorkshire, M.P. for Scarborough; discharged 
from sitting in the House of Commons, July 21, following. 


2Created Earl of Bath 1661, son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at the 
battle of Lansdowne, and said to have been the only person entrusted 
by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the Restoration. : 

*The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, without 
the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a hanging mat- 


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men, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do 
nothing else this evening. This day come Mr. North’ (Sir 
Dudley North’s son) on board, to spend a little time here, 
which my Lord was a little troubled at, but he seems to be a 
fine gentleman, and at night did play his part exceeding 
well at first sight. 

3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King’s declara- 
tion and his letter to the two Generals, to be communicated 
to the fleet. The contents of the latter are his offer of grace 
to all that will come in within forty days, only excepting 
them that the Parliament shall hereafter except. That the 
sales of lands during these troubles, and all other things, 
shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. The 
letter dated at Breda, April 4-14, 1660, in the twelfth year 
of his reign. Upon the receipt of it this morning by an 
express, Mr. Phillips, one of the messengers of the Council 
from General Monk, my Lord summoned a council of war, 
and in the meantime did dictate to me how he would have 
the vote ordered which he would have pass this council. 
Which done, the Commanders all came on board, and the 
council sat in the coach’ (the first council of war that had 
been in my time), where I read the letter and declaration ; 
and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw 
up a vote, which, being offered, they passed. Not one man 
seemed to say No to it, though I am confident many in 
their hearts were against it. After this was done, I went 
up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the Commanders, 
and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, 
and demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them 
ery out, “ God bless King Charles!” with the greatest joy 
imaginable. That being done, Sir R. Stayner, who had 
invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders and myself 
on board him to dinner, which not being ready, I went with 
Captain Hayward to the Plimouth and Essex,’ and did 


ter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated and jeered 
at, that the butchers’ boys would say, “ Will you buy any Parliament 
rumps and kidneys?” And it was a very ordinary thing to see little 
children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps.—Rugge’s Diurnal. 
1 Charles, eldest son of Dudley, afterwards fourth Lord North. 
2?Coach, on board a man-of-war, “ The Council Chamber.” 
§ John Hayward was captain of the Plymouth. Thomas Binns com- 
manded the Essex. 


E 2 


52 DIARY OF [3d May, 


what I had to do, and returned, where very merry at dinner. 
After dinner, to the rest of the ships quite through the fleet, 
which was a very brave sight to visit all the ships, and to be 
received with the respect and honour that I was on board 
them all, and much more to see the great joy that I brought 
to all men; not one through the whole fleet showing me 
the least dislike of the business. In the evening, as I was 
going on board the Vice-Admiral, the General began to fire 
his guns, which he did all that he had in the ship, and so 
did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very gallant, 
and to hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were 
in the boat. This done, and finished my Proclamation, I 
returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was much pleased 
to hear how all the fleet took it in a transport of joy, showed 
me a private letter of the King’s to him, and another from 
the Duke of York, in such familiar style as their common 
friend, with all kindness imaginable. And I found by the 
letters, and so my Lord told me too, that there had been 
many letters passed between them for a great while, and I 
perceive unknown to Monk. And among the rest that had 
carried these letters Sir John Boys* is one, and Mr. Nor- 
wood, which had a ship to carry him over the other day, 
when my Lord would not have me put down his name in the 
book. The King speaks of his being courted to come to the 
Hague, but do desire my Lord’s advice where to come to 
take ship; and the Duke offers to learn the seaman’s trade 
of him, in such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had 
writ them. This was very strange to me that my Lord 
should carry all things so wisely and prudently as he do, 
and I was over-joyful to see him in so good condition, and 
he did not a little please himself to tell me how he had pro- 
vided for himself so great a hold on the King. After this 
to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at night, 
and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed 
to put great confidence in me, and would take my advice in 
many things. I perceived his being willing to do all the 
honour in the world to Monk, and to let him have all the 
honour of doing the business, though he will many times 
express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. 


See April 21st, ante. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 53 


So that I do believe there is some agreement more than 
ordinary between the King and my Lord to let Monk carry 
on the business, for it is he that can do the business, or at 
least that can hinder it, if he be not flattered and observed. 
This my Lord will hint himself sometimes. My Lord, I 
perceive by the King’s letter, had writ to him about his 
father, Crewe,’ and the King did speak well of him; but 
my Lord tells me that he is afraid that he hath too much 
concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the House 
of Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy. 

4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the 
copies of the vote of the council of war I put my name, 
that if it should come in print my name may be to it. I 
sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed in this letter :— 


«Sir, 

“ He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with 
pendants loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud ‘ Vive 
le Roys!’ echoed from one ship’s company to another, he, 
and he only, can apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was 
received with, or the blessing he thought himself possessed 
of that bore it, and is 

** Your humble servant.” 


About nine o’clock I got all my letters done, and sent 
them by the messenger that come yesterday. This morn- 
ing come Captain Isham on board with a gentleman going 
to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord tells me, 
he intends to send an account of this day’s and yesterday’s 
actions here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parlia- 
ment to have leave of them to send the King the answer 
of the fleet. Since my writing of the last paragraph, my 
Lord called me to him to read his letter to the King, to see 
whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as much of 
the letter? as I can remember is thus :— 

“May it please your Most Excellent Majesty,” and so 
begins. 

1When only seventeen years old, he had married Jemima, daughter 
of John Crewe, created afterwards Baron Crewe of Stene. 


2See the letter printed in Lister’s Life of Lord Clarendon, vol. iii. px 
404, It is dated 4th May. 


54 DIARY OF [4th May, 


That he yesterday received from General Monk his 
Majesty’s letter and direction; and that General Monk had 
desired him to write to the Parliament to have leave to send 
the vote of the seamen before he did send it to him, which 
he had done by writing to both Speakers; but for his pri- 
vate satisfaction he had sent it thus privately, (and so the 
copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him) and that 
this come by a gentleman that come this day on board, 
intending to wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord’s 
countryman, and one whose friends have suffered much on 
his Majesty’s behalf. That my Lords Pembroke’ and 
Salisbury’ are put out of the House of Lords. That my 
Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the 
civility and respect due to him; and that he do much 
rejoice to see that the King do receive none of their assist- 
ance (or some such words) from them, he having strength 
enough in the love and loyalty of his own subjects to 
support him. ‘That his Majesty had chosen the best place, 
Scheveling, for his embarking, and that there is nothing in 
the world of which he is more ambitious than to have the 
honour of attending his Majesty, which he hoped would be 
speedy. That he had commanded the vessel to attend at 
Helvetsluce till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty 
do not think it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he 
may be there to receive his commands and bring them to his 
Lordship. He ends his letter, that he is confounded with 
the thoughts of the high expressions of love to him in the 
King’s letter, and concludes, 

** Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull, and obedient subject 
and servant, earl Sep ky (Ac 


After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking 
concerning the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer 
to them that had them now; he did at last think of an office 
which do belong to him in case the king do restore every 


*Philip, fifth Earl of Pembroke, and second Earl of Montgomery, 
ob. 1669. Clarendon says, “This young Earl’s affections were entire 
for his Majesty.” 


? William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury, ob. 1668. After Crom- 
well had put down the House of Peers, he was chosen a Member of the 
House of Commons, and sat with them. 


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man to his places that ever had been patent, which is to be 
one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a fine employ- 
ment for one of his sons. 

In the afternoon come a minister on board, one Mr. 
Sharpe, who is going to the King; who tells me that Com- 
missioners are chosen both of the Lords and Commons to go 
to the King; and that Dr. Clarges' is going to him from 
the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. My letters 
at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to 
Sir John Greenville, in answer to the King’s sending, and 
that they give him 5001. for his pains, to buy him a jewel, 
and that besides the 50,0001. ordered to be borrowed of the 
City for the present use of the King, the twelve companies 
of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, as a 
present, 10001. 

5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, 
and a packet to Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what 
had been done lately in the fleet. And this I did by my 
Lord’s command, who, I thank him, did of himself think of 
doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter himself to 
him, thanking him for his kindness to me. This evening 
come Dr. Clarges to Deal, going to the King; where the 
towns-people strewed the streets with herbs against his 
coming, for joy at his going. Never was there so general 
a content as there is now. I cannot but remember that our 
parson did, in his prayer to night, pray for the long life and 
happiness of our King and dread Soveraigne, that may last as 
long as the sun and moon endureth. 

6th. (Lord’s day.) Dr. Clarges and a dozen gentlemen 
to see my Lord, and after sermon dined with him: last 
night, my Lord told me that he was a man of small entendi- 
miento. It fell very well to-day, a stranger preached here 
for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King 
Charles, by the Grace of God, &c., which gave great con- 
tentment to the gentlemen that were on board here, and 
they said they would talk of it, when they come to Breda, 
as not having it done yet in London so publickly. After 


*Thomas Clarges, physician to the Army, created a Baronet 1674, 
ob. 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married 
General Monk. 


56 DIARY OF [Sth May, 


they were gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to 
the King, and give it to me to carry privately to Sir William 
Compton,’ on board the Assistance, which I did, and after 
a health to his Majesty on board there, I left them under 
sail for Breda. I find that, all my debts paid and my pre- 
parations to sea, I have 40/. clear in my purse, and so to 
bed. 

7th. My Lord went this morning about the flag-ships in 
a boat, to see what alterations there must be, as to the arms 
and flags. He did give me orders also to write for silk flags 
and scarlet waistcloathes.* For a rich barge; for a noise or 
trumpets, and a set of fiddlers. Very great deal of company 
come to day, among others Mr. Bellasses,* Sir Thomas 
Leuthropp,* Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel Philip Honiwood,’ 
and Captain Titus,’ the last of whom my Lord showed all 
our cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room 
there will be for the King’s entertainment. Wrote a letter 
to the French Ambassador, in French, about the release of a 
ship we had taken. 

8th. After dinner come several persons of honour, as my 
Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great 
giving of them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: 
I lost 9s. Mr. Cooke brings me news of my wife. He 
went to Huntsmore’ to see her, and brought her and my 


*Third son of Spencer, Earl of Northampton, a Privy Councillor and 
Master of the Ordnance, ob. 1663, aged 39. When only eighteen years 
of age, he had charged with his gallant father at the battle of Edgehill. 


His mother was first cousin to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham,. 


and to John Ashburnham; and his great uncle, Sir Thomas Compton, 
had been the third husband of the Duke’s mother, Mary, countess of 
Buckingham. 


? The sailors’ clothes contained in bags, hung about the cage-work of 
a ship’s hull to protect the men in action. 

3’ Henry, eldest son of Lord Bellasis, made K.B. at Charles the 
Second’s coronation. 

‘Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, Bart., married Mary, daughter of Sir 
Capell Bedell, Bart.: ob. 1671. 

® See note to 13th January, 1661-2. 

* Colonel Silas Titus, gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles II., the 
reputed author of Killing no Murder. 


7A hamlet belonging to Iver, in which parish Robert Bowyer founded 
a free school, about 1750.—Lysons’s History of Buckinghamshire, 
p. 587. 


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father Bowyer to London, where he left her at my father’s, 
very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. My 
letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King 
should be proclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of 
pomp. I had also news who they are that are chosen of 
the Lords and Commons to attend the King; and also the 
whole story of what we did the other day in the fleet, at 
reading of the King’s declaration, and my name at the bottom 
of it. 

9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from 
the two Generals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, 
wherein my Lord do give most humble thanks for his gra- 
cious letter and declaration; and promises all duty and obe- 
dience to him. This letter was carried this morning to Sir 
Peter Killigrew, who come hither this morning early to 
bring an order from the Lords’ House to my Lord, giving 
him power to write an answer to the King. This morning 
my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to 
see my Lord, and so away to Flushing. As we were sitting 
down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the House 
of Lords to my Lord, to desire him to provide ships to trans- 
port the Commissioners to the King, which are expected 
here this week. He brought us certain news that the King 
was proclaimed yesterday with great pomp, and brought 
down one of the Proclamations, with great joy to us all; for 
which God be praised. This morning come Mr. Saunderson,” 
that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to 
the King. He calls me cozen, and seems a very knowing 
man. 

10th. Come on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to 
the King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Where, for to be 
the King’s embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson [I 
got a ship. Lord Winchilsea® and a great deal of company 
dined here. Mr. Edward Montagu, my Lord’s son,* come 


1Of Arwenack, Cornwall, M.P. for Camelford, 1660. 

2Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, 
author of the History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I. 
His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids. 

*Heneage Finch, second Earl of Winchelsea, constituted by General 
Monk Governor of Dover Castle, July, 1660; made Lord Lieutenant 
of Kent, and afterwards ambassador to Turkey. Ob. 1689. 

‘The eldest, and afterwards second Earl of Sandwich. 


58 DIARY OF [11th May, 
on board, with Mr. Pickering. The child was sick. At 


night, while my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord 
Lauderdale’ and Sir John Greenville, who supped here, and 
so went away. After they were gone, my Lord called me 
into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set 
sail presently for the King,” and was very glad thereof. I 
got him afterwards to sign things in bed. 

11th. This morning we began to pull down all the States’ 
arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover for painters and 
others to come to set up the King’s. There dined here my 
Lord Crafford® and my Lord Cavendish,* and other Scotch- 
men, whom I afterwards ordered to be received on board the 
Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner, we set 
sail from the Downs. In the afternoon overtook us three or 
four gentlemen; two of the Berties,’ and one Mr. Dormer 
Hay,° a Scotch gentleman, whom I found afterwards to be a 


1John Maitland, second earl, and afterwards created Marquis of 
March, Duke of Lauderdale, and Earl of Guildford (in England), and 
K.G. He became sole Secretary of State for Scotland in 1661, and was 
a Gentleman of his Majesty’s Bedchamber, and died in 1682, s. p. 


2 Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His 
Majesty for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty’s return- 
ing home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceed- 
ings in law be in His Majesty’s name.—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


3 John Crawfurd, fourteenth Earl of Crawfurd, restored in 1661 to 
the office of High Treasurer of Scotland, which he had held eight years 
under Charles the First. 


4 William Lord Cavendish, afterwards fourth Earl and first Duke of 
Devonshire. 


5 Robert and Edward Bertie, two of the surviving sons of Robert, 
first Earl of Lindsay, killed at Edgehill. Their mother was Elizabeth, 
only child of Edward, first Lord Montagu of Boughton: they were, 
therefore, nearly connected with Sir E. Montagu, and with Pepys, in 
some degree. 


®This may be rather Thomas Dalmahoy, who had married the 
Duchess Dowager of Hamilton: see (infra) Speaker Onslow’s note to 
Burnet. The husband of the loyal Duchess would be naturally one of 
the first to welcome the King; and Onslow says he was in the interest 
of the Duke of York:—‘ Lord Middleton retired, after his disgrace, 
to the Friary, near Guildford, to one Dalmahoy there, a genteel, gene- 
rous man, who was of Scotland: had been Gentleman of the Horse to 
William Duke of Hamilton (killed at the battle of Worcester) ; married 
that Duke’s widow; and by her had this house, &c. This man, Dal- 
mahoy, being much in the interest of the Duke of York, and a man to 
be relied upon, and long a candidate for the town of Guildford, at the 


cere 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 59 


very fine man; who, telling my Lord that they heard the 
Commissioners were come out of London to-day, my Lord 
dropt anchor over against Dover Castle (which give us about 
thirty guns in passing), and upon a high debate with the 
Vice and Rear-Admiral whether it were safe to go, and not 
stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. 
Stayner to Dover, to enquire of my Lord Winchilsea whether 
or no they are come out of London, and then to resolve to- 
morrow morning of going or not; which was done. It blew 
very hard all night: come the boats from Deal, with great 
store of provision. 

12th. My Lord give me many orders to make, for direc- 
tion for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them 
the greatest charge in the world to bring no passengers with 
them, when they come after us to Scheveling Bay, except- 
ing Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas Crewe, and Sir 
H. Wright. Sir R. Stayner told my Lord, that my Lord 
Winchilsea understands by letters, that the Commissioners 
are only to come to Dover to attend the coming over of the 
King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which 
we did, and sailed all day. In the afternoon at cards with 
Mr. North and the Doctor.* By us, in the Lark frigate, Sir 
R. Freeman and some others, going from the King to Eng- 
land, come to see my Lord, and so onward on their voyage. 

13th. (Lord’s day.) To the quarter-deck, at which the 
tailors and painters were at work, cutting out some pieces of 
yellow cloth in the fashion of a crown and C. R., and put it 
upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of the 
States’ arms, which after dinner was finished and set up. This 
morn Sir J. Boys and Captain Isham met us in the Nonsuch, 
the first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went 
forward, the other staid. I heard by them how Mr. Downing 
had never made any address to the King, and for that was 
hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in a Dutch 
ship which sailed by us, then going to England with disgrace. 


election of the Parliament after the Long one, in 1678, and being op- 
posed, I think, by the famous Algernon Sidney, the Duke of York came 
from Windsor to Dalmahoy’s house, to countenance his election, and 
appeared for him in the open court, when the election was taken.”— 
Note to Burnet’s O. 7., vol. i. p. 350, * Clerke, 


60 DIARY OF [14th May, 


Also how Mr. Morland’ was knighted by the King, this week, 
and that the King did give the reason of it openly, that it 
was for his giving him intelligence all the time he was clerk 
to Secretary Thurloe. In the afternoon a council of war, 
only to acquaint them that the Harp must be taken out - 
of all their flags, it being very offensive to the King.” Mr. 
Cook brought me a letter from my wife, and a later letter 
from my brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly 
pleased. No sermon all day, we being under sail, only at 
night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbot prayed for all such as were 
related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. Late at night 
we writ letters to the King of the news of our coming, and 
Mr. Edward Pickering carried them. Captain Isham went 
on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so the old man 
very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly 
bid him ‘‘ God be with you,” which was very strange, but 
that I hear that he keeps a great deal of prating and talking 
on shore, on board, at the King’s Courts, what command he 
had with my Lord, &c. 

14th. In the morning the Hague was clearly to be seen 
by us. My Lord went up in his night-gown into the cuddy, 
to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong 
to him, to give order for our removal to-day. Some nasty 
Dutchmen came on board to proffer their boats to carry 
things from us on shore, &c., to get money by us. Before 
noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss 
my Lord’s hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. 
Clerke went to kiss the Queen of Bohemia’s hands, from my 


1Samuel Morland, successively scholar and fellow of Magdalene 
College, and Pepys’s tutor there, became afterwards one of Thurloe’s 
Under Secretaries, and was employed in several embassies, particularly 
to the Vaudois, by Cromwell, whose interests he betrayed, by secretly 
communicating with Charles the Second. In consideration of these 
services, he was created a baronet of Sulhamstead Banister, Berks, after 
the Restoration. He was an ingenious mechanic, supposed by some 
persons (but without the claim being satisfactorily established) to have 
invented the Steam Engine, and was buried at Hammersmith, 6th 
January, 1695-6. His MSS. are at Cambridge, in the Public Library; 
and his brief but interesting Autobiography has been printed by Mr. 
Halliwell. 

7No doubt, because Charles II. objected to the arms used during 
the Protectorate. 


nanan 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 61 


Lord, with twelve attendants from on board to wait on them, 
among which I sent my boy,’ who, like myself, is with child 
to see any strange thing. After noon they came back again, 
after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia’s* hand, and were 
sent again by my Lord to do the same to the Prince of 
Orange.* So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, 
which my Lord did give, and I, taking my boy and Judge 
Advocate with me, went in company with them. The weather 
bad; we were sadly washed when we come near the shore, it 
being very hard to land there. The shore is so, all the 
country between that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of 
the company got a coach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I 
went in the fore part of a coach, wherein were two very pretty 
ladies, very fashionable, and with black patches, who very 
merrily sang all the way, and that very well, and were very 
free to kiss two blades that were with them. The Hague is 
a most neat place in all respects. ‘The houses so neat in all 
places and things as is possible. Here we walked up and 
down a great while, the town being now very full of English- 
men, for that the Londoners were come on shore to-day. 
But going to see the Prince,* he was gone forth with his 
governor, and so we walked up and down the town and 
court to see the place; and by the help of a stranger, an 
Englishman, we saw a great many places, and were made to 
understand many things, as the intention of May-poles, which 
we saw there standing at every great man’s door, of different 
greatness according to the quality of the person. About ten 
at night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy ad- 
mission. His attendance very inconsiderable as for a Prince; 
but yet handsome, and his tutor a fine man, and himself a 
very pretty boy. This done, we went to a place we had 
taken to sup in, where a sallet and two or three bones of 
mutton were provided for a matter of ten of us, which was 
very strange. The Judge and I lay in one press bed, there 
being two more in the same room; my boy sleeping on a 


bench by me. 


*Young Edward Montagu, afterwards styled “ the child.” 

* Elizabeth, daughter of James I., and widow of Frederic Elector 
Palatine, and titular King of Bohemia. 

* Afterwards William III.; then very young. 

*Of Orange. 


62 DIARY OF [15th May, 


15th. We lay till past three o’clock, then up and down 
the town, to see it by daylight; where we saw the soldiers 
of the Prince’s guard, all very fine, and the burghers of the 
town with their muskets as bright as silver. A _ school- 
master, that spoke good English and French, showed us the 
whole town, and indeed I cannot speak enough of the 
gallantry of the town. Every body of fashion speaks French 
or Latin, or both. The women, many of them very pretty 
and in good habits, fashionable, and black spots. We 
bought a couple of baskets for Mrs. Pierce and my wife. 
The Judge and I to the Grande Salle, where the States sit 
in council. The hall is a great place, where the flags that 
they take from their enemies are all hung up; and things 
to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike it, 
but that not so big. To a bookseller’s, and bought, for the 
love of the binding, three books: the French Psalms, in four 
parts, Bacon’s Organon, and Farnab. Rhetor. By coach to 
Scheveling again, the wind being very high. We saw two 
boats overset, and the gallants forced to be pulled on shore 
by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and 
feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among others, the 
ministers that come with the Commissioners (Mr. Case* 
among the rest) sadly dripped. Being in haste, I lost my 
Copenhagen knife. A gentleman going to kiss my Lord’s 
hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired a Dutch 
boat for four rix-dollars to carry us on board. We were 
fain to wait a great while before we could get off from the 
shore, the sea being very foul. The Dutchman would fain 
have made all pay that come into our boat besides our com- 
pany, there being many of our ship’s company got in, 
but some of them had no money, having spent all on 
shore. Coming on board, we found all the Commis- 
sioners of the House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, 
who after dinner went away for shore. Mr. Mor- 
land, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not 
find that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, 
he being looked upon by him and all men as a knave. 
Among others, he betrayed Sir Richard Willis that married 


*Thomas Case, a member of the assembly of divines, one of the 
ministers sent to congratulate the King. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 63 


Dr. F. Jones’s daughter, who had paid him 10001. at one 
time by the Protector’s and Secretary Thurloe’s order, for 
intelligence that he sent concerning the King.’ In the 
afternoon my Lord called me on purpose to show me his 
fine cloathes which are now come hither, and indeed are 
very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword 
he and I do not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I 
walked together in the coach two hours, talking together 
upon all sorts of discourse: as religion, wherein he is, I 
perceive, wholly sceptical, saying, that indeed the Pro- 
testants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques: 
he likes uniformity and form of prayer: about State-busi- 
ness, among other things he told me that his conversion to 
the King’s cause (for I was saying that I wondered from 
what time the King could look upon him to become his 
friend) commenced from his being in the Sound, when he 
found what usage he was likely to have from a Common- 
wealth. My Lord, the Captain, and I, supped in my Lord’s 
chamber, where I did perceive that he did begin to show me 
much more respect than ever he did yet. After supper, my 
Lord sent for me, intending to have me play at cards with 
him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell into discourse of 
many things, and the ship rolled so much that I was not 
able to stand, and so he bid me go to bed. 

16th. Come in some with visits, among the rest one from 
Admiral Opdam,’ who spoke Latin well, but not French nor 
English, whom my Lord made me to entertain: he brought 
my Lord a tierce of wine and a barrel of butter, as a present. 
Commissioner Pett? was now come to take care to get all 


1Compare 14th August, 1660. 


*The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset’s ballad, “To all you ladies 
now at land.” 

Should foggy Opdam chance to know 
Our sad and dismal story; 

The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, 
And quit their fort at Gorce: 

For what resistance can they find 
From men who’ve left their hearts behind? 


3 Peter Pett, then one of the Commissioners of the Navy, and after- 
wards knighted by the Duke of Ormond, when Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland, His ancestors had been eminent ship-builders at Deptford for 


64 DIARY OF - [16th May, 


things ready for the King on board. My Lord in his best 
suit, this the first day, in expectation to wait upon the King. 
But Mr. Edward Pickering coming from the King, brought 
word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble 
of coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to 
look upon the fleet to-day, which we expected, and had our 
guns ready to fire, and our scarlet waist-cloathes out and 
silk pendants, but he did not come. This evening came 
Mr. John Pickering* on board, like an ass, with his feathers 
and new suit that he had made at the Hague. My Lord 
very angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little be- 
fore to send for him, telling me that he was afraid that, for 
his father’s sake, he might have some mischief done him, 


several generations, and had served their respective sovereigns with 
credit and success. At this time, there were three others of the same 
name and family in the civil service of the navy. 
SALARIES. 
£8 @e 
Phineas Pett, Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham.... 120 0 0 
Phineas Pett, Jun., Assistant to the Master 


Shipwright ati@hathamy 3ie oF dei ehal le, eyes vials yet O te 
Christopher Pett, Master Shipwright at Wool- 
Wil Cinlopeve lets voneys tyederaneleserars: sisiefeelevaketote|eeisual sletetcl acre tae ieters 103 8 4 


So Fuller might well observe that the mystery of shipwrights for some 
descents hath been preserved successively in families, “of which the 
Pettes of Chatham are of singular regard.”—Worthies of England. There 
is an interesting autobiographical memoir of Phineas Pett, master ship- 
wright to James I., in the Archexologia, vol. xii. 

“ Beyond the Victualling Office, on the same side of the High Street, 
at Rochester, is an old mansion, now occupied by a Mr. Morson, an 
attorney, which formerly belonged to the Petts, the celebrated ship- 
builders.. The chimney-piece in the principal room is of wood, curiously 
carved, the upper part being divided into compartments by caryatydes. 
The central compartment contains the family arms, viz., Or, on a fesse 
gu., between three pellets, a lion passant gardant of the field. On the 
back of the grate is a cast of Neptune, standing erect in his car, with 
Tritons blowing conches, &c., and the date 1650.”—Hist. of Rochester, 
p. 337, ed. 1817. 

1 Eldest son of Sir Gilbert Pickering, whom he succeeded in his titles 
and estates in 1668. His father had been an active Commonweath 
man and was one of the knights of the shire for the county of North- 
ampton, in 1656; he was also of Cromwell’s council, chamberlain of the 
court, and high steward of Westminster. Sir Gilbert Pickering’s peti- 
tion being read, he was ordered to be excepted as to the penalties to be 
inflicted not reaching to life, by an act provided for that purpose.— 
Commons’ Journals; see 19th June, 1660. 


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unless he used the General’s name. ‘This afternoon Mr. 
Edward Pickering told me in what a sad, poor condition for 
clothes and money the King was, and all his attendants, 
when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not 
being worth forty shillings the best of them." And how 
overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him 
some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal’ 
and Duke of York to look upon it, as it lay in the portman- 
teau, before it was taken out.° My Lord told me, too, that 
the Duke of York is made High Admiral of England. 

17th. Dr. Clerke came to tell me that he heard this morn- 
ing, by some Dutch that are come on board already to see 
the ships, that there was a Portuguese taken yesterday at 
the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this I 
heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being ob- 
served to walk with his sword naked, he having lost his 
scabbard. Before dinner, Mr. Edward Pickering and I. W. 
Howe, Pim, and my boy,* to Scheveling, where we took 
coach, and so to the Hague, where walking, intending to 
find one that might show us the King incognito, I met with 
Captain Whittington, (that had formerly brought a letter 
to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise 
me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, 
but paid 10s. for our part of the club. At dinner in came 
Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson of the King’s. And they 
two got the child and me (the others not being able to 
crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child very affec- 
tionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York’s, 
and the Princess Royal’s hands. The King seemed to be a 
very sober man; and a very splendid Court he hath in the 


1Andrew Marvell, speaking of the poor condition, for clothes and 
money, in which the King was at this time, observes— 
* At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, 
The people call him back to help the State; 
And what is more, they send him money, too, 
And clothe him all from head to foot anew.” 


2Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of the Prince of 
Orange, who died 1646-7. She was carried off by the small-pox, De- 
cember, 1660, leaving a son, afterwards King William III. 


®A picture, in which this scene is well treated, by Mr. W. Carpenter, 
was lately exhibited at the Royal Academy. 


*Edward Mé@ntagu. 
VOL. I. F 


66 DIARY OF [18th May, 


number of persons of quality that are about him, English, 
very rich in habit. From the King to the Lord Chancellor, 
who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to 
the child and me. After that, going to see the Queen of 
Bohemia, I met Dr. Fuller, whom I sent to a tavern with 
Mr. Edward Pickering, while I and the rest went to see the 
Queen, who used us very respectfully: her hand we all 
kissed. She seems a very debonair, but a plain lady. In 
a coach of a friend’s of Dr. Cade, we went to see a house of 
the Princess Dowager’s, in a park about a mile from the 
Hague, where there is one of the most beautiful rooms for 
pictures in the whole world. She had here one picture upon 
the top, with these words, dedicating it to the memory 
of her husband:—* Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis 
vidua.””* 

18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, 
our Lord High Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. 
Pickering and I took waggon for Scheveling, leaving the 
child in Mr. Pierce’s hands, with directions to keep within 
doors all day. But the wind being so very high that no 
boats could get off from shore, we returned to the Hague 
(having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke’s and 
Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my 
Lord of his coming); where I hear that the child is gone 
to Delfe to see the town: so we took a scout,” very much 
pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers, 
where most speak French; went after them, and met them 
by the way. We got a smith’s boy of the town to go along 
with us, and he showed us the church where Van Trump 
lies entombed with a very fine monument. His epitaph is 
concluded thus:—“ Tandem Bello Anglico tantum non 
victor, certé invictus, vivere et vincere desiit.” There is a 
sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the best expressed 
that ever I saw in my life. From thence to the great 
church, that stands in a fine great market-place, over against 
the Stadt-house, and there I saw a stately tomb of the old 
Prince of Orange, of marble and brass; wherein, among 
other rarities, there are the angels with their trumpets ex- 
pressed as it were crying. Here were very fine organs in 


1 And yet, like the Ephesian matron, she was said to be married clan- 
destinely. *A kind of swift sailing-boat. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 67 


both the churches. It is a most sweet town, with bridges, 
and a river in every street. In every house of entertain- 
ment there hangs in every room a poor man’s box, it being 
their custom to confirm all bargains by putting something 
into the box, and that binds as fast as anything. We also 
saw the Guest-House, where it was pleasant to see what 
neat preparation there is for the poor. We saw one poor 
man a dying there. We light by chance of an English 
house to drink in, where discourse of the town and the 
thing that hangs up in the Stadt-house like a bushel, which 
is a sort of punishment for offenders to carry through the 
streets over his head, which is a great weight. Back by 
water, where a pretty, sober, Dutch lass sat reading all the 
way, and [ could not fasten any discourse upon her. We 
met with Commissioner Pett going down to the water-side 
with Major Harley,* who is going upon a dispatch into 
England. 

19th. Up early and went to Scheveling, where I found no 
getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every day 
to see whether he could do it or no. By waggon to Lausdune, 
where the 365 children were born. We saw the hill where 
they say the house stood wherein the children were born. 
The basins wherein the male and female children were bap- 
tized do stand over a large table that hangs upon a wall, with 
the whole story of the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning 
** Margarita Herman Comitissa,” &c. The thing was done 
about 200 years ago.” 

20th. (Lord’s day.) Commissioner Pett at last came to 
our lodging, and caused the boats to go off; so some in one 
boat and some in another, we all bid adieu to the shore. 
But through the badness of weather we were in great danger, 
and a great while before we could get to the ship. This 
hath not been known four days together such weather this 
time of year, a great while. Indeed, our fleet was thought 
to be in great danger, but we found all well. 

21st. The weather foul all this day also. After dinner, 

* Afterwards Colonel Edward Harley, M.P. for Hereford, and Governor 
of Dunkirk: ancestor of the Earls of Oxford of that race, recently 
become extinct in the male line. He was afterwards made a Knight of 


the Bath at the Coronation of Charles IT. 
* This story has been frequently printed. 


Fr 2 


68 DIARY OF [22d May, 


about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my 
papers in order, hearing, by letters that came hither in my 
absence, that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be 
secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late 
King’s death, and all the officers attending the Court. Sir 
John Lenthall’ moving in the House that all that had borne 
arms against the King should be exempted from pardon, he 
was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe re- 
proof, he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I find 
that all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure 
of their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is 
believed that the sales of the King’s and Bishops’ lands will 
never be confirmed by Parliament, there being nothing now 
in any man’s power to hinder them and the King from doing 
what they had a mind, but every body willing to submit to 
any thing. We expect every day to have the King and 
Duke on board as soon as it is fair. My Lord does nothing 
now, but offers all things to the pleasure of the Duke as 
Lord High Admiral: so that I am at a loss what to do. 

22d. Up, and trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed 
me yet, my Spaniard being ‘on shore. News brought that 
the two Dukes are coming on board, which, by and by, they 
did, in a Dutch boat, the Duke of York in yellow trimmings, 
the Duke of Gloucester in grey and red. My Lord went 
in a boat to meet them; the Captain, myself, and others, 
standing at the entering port. So soon as they were entered, 
we shot the guns off round the fleet. After that, they went 
to view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased 
with it. They seem to be very fine gentlemen. After that 


1Sir John Lenthall, who survived till 1681, was the only son of 
Speaker Lenthall, and Cromwell’s Governor of Windsor Castle. He 
had been knighted by the Protector in 1657; but is styled “ Mr. Lent- 
hall” in the Commons’ Journals of the House, 12th May, 1660, where the 
proceedings alluded to by Pepys are fully detailed. Mrs. Hutchinson 
also gives an account of them, in her Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson, p. 
367, 4to edit. On the 22nd of May following, Lenthall lost his seat for 
Abingdon, the double return for that borough having been decided in 
favour of Sir John Stonehouse; probably the then recent offence which 
Lenthall had given to the House of Commons had more influence in the 
adverse issue of the petition than the actual merits of the case. Sir 
John Lenthall, of whom Pepys speaks, Aug. 10, 1663, was the brother 
to the Speaker. See that passage. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 69 


done, upon the quarter-deck table, under the awning, the 
Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry,’ and I, spent 
an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their re- 
turn to England; which being done, they went to dinner, 
where the table was very full; the two Dukes at the upper 
end, my Lord Opdam next on one side, and my Lord on the 
other. ‘Two guns given to every man while he was drinking 
the King’s health, and so likewise to the Duke’s health. I 
took down Monsieur d’Esquier to the great cabin below, and 
dined with him in state along with only one or two friends 
of his. All dinner, the harper belonging to Captain Sparl- 
ing played to the Dukes. After dinner, the Dukes and my 
Lord to sea, the Vice and Rear-Admirals and I in a boat 
after them. After that done, they made to the shore in the 
Dutch boat that brought them, and I got into the boat with 
them; but the shore was full of people to expect their 
coming. When we came near the shore, my Lord left them, 
and come into his own boat, and General Pen, and I with 
him; my Lord being very well pleased with this day’s work. 
By the time we came on board again, news is sent us that 
the King is on shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round 
twice, and all the fleet after him, which, in the end, fell into 
disorder, which seemed very handsome. The gun over 
against my cabin I fired myself to the King, which was the 
first time that he had been saluted by his own ships since 
this change; but, holding my head too much over the gun, 
I had almost spoiled my right eye. Nothing in the world 
but giving of guns almost all this day. In the evening we 
began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter’s cabin, and Dr. 


*Sir William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached 
afterwards, was the youngest son of Thomas first Lord Coventry, the 
Lord Keeper. He entered at Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1642; and 
on his return from his travels was made Secretary to the Duke of York, 
and elected M.P. for Yarmouth: In 1662, he was appointed a Com- 
missioner of the Navy; in 1665, knighted and sworn a Privy Councillor; 
and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the Treasury; but, having 
been forbid the court, on account of his challenging the Duke of Buck- 
ingham, he retired into the country, nor could he subsequently be pre- 
vailed upon to accept of any official employment. Burnet calls Sir 
William Coventry the best speaker in the House of Commons, and a 
man of great notions and eminent virtues; and Pepys never omits an 
opportunity of paying a tribute to his public and private worth. Ob. 
1686, aged 60. 


70 DIARY OF [23d May, 


Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, having 
been twice ducked in the sea to-day, and Mr. North and 
John Pickering the like.. Many of the King’s servants 
come on board to-night; and so many Dutch of all sorts 
come to see the ship till it was quite dark, that we could 
not pass by one another, which was a great trouble to us all. 
This afternoon, Mr. Downing (who was knighted yesterday 
by the King) was here on board, and had a ship for his 
passage into England with his lady and servants. By the 
same token, he called me to him when I was going to write 
the order, to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. 
My Lord lay in the roundhouse to-night. This evening, I 
was late writing a French letter by my Lord’s order to 
Monsieur Wragh, Embassadeur de Denmarke 4 la Haye, 
which my Lord signed in bed. 

23d. In the morning come infinity of people on board 
from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. Crewe, 
and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off 
from shore, where Sir R. Stayner, bringing his Majesty into 
the boat, I hear that his Majesty did, with a great deal of 
affection, kiss my Lord upon his first meeting. ‘The King, 
with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, Princesse 
Royalle, and Prince of Orange, come on board, where 
I, in their coming in, kissed the King’s, Queen’s, and 
Princesse’s hands, having done the other before. In- 
finite shooting off of the guns, and that in a disorder on 
purpose, which was better than if it had been otherwise. 
All day, nothing but Lords and persons of honour on board, 
that we were exceeding full. Dined in a great deal of state, 
the Royalle company by themselves in the coach, which was 
a blessed sight to see. After dinner, the King and Duke 
altered the name of some of the ships, viz., the Nazeby into 
Charles;* the Richard, James; the Speaker, Mary; the 
Dunbar (which was not in company with us), the Henry; 
Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert, 
the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the 
Successe.” That done, the Queen, Princesse Royalle, and 


1The Naseby now no longer England’s shame, 
But better to be lost in Charles his name. 
Dryven’s Astrea Redux. 
7 See in the Appendix a list of the fleet and the commanders’ names, 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 71 


Prince of Orange, took leave of the King, and the Duke of 
York went on board the London, and the Duke of Glouces- 
ter, the Swiftsure, which done, we weighed anchor, and with 
a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. 
All the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and 
down, (quite contrary to what I thought him to have been) 
very active and stirring. Upon the quarter-deck he fell into 
discourse of his escape from Worcester, where it made me 
ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his diffi- 
culties that he had passed through, as his travelling four 
days and three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in 
dirt, with nothing but a green coat and a pair of country 
breeches on, and a pair of country shoes that made him so 
sore all over his feet, that he could scarce stir. Yet he was 
forced to run away from a miller and other company, that 
took them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, 
where the master of the house, that had not seen him in 
eight years, did know him, but kept it private; when at the 
same table there was one, that had been of his own regiment 
at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the 
King’s health, and said that the King was at least four 
fingers higher than he. At another place, he was by some 
servants of the house made to drink, that they might know 
that he was not a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In 
another place, at his inn, the master of the house, as the 
King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair 
by the fireside, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, 
saying, that he would not ask him who he was, but bid God 
bless him whither he was going. Then the difficulties in 
getting a boat to get into France, where he was fain to plot 
with the master thereof to keep his design from the foreman 
and a boy, (which was all the ship’s company) and so get to 
Fécamp, in France. At Rouen he looked so poorly, that 
the people went into the rooms before he went away, to see 
whether he had not stole something or other. In the even- 
ing I went up to my Lord, to write letters for England, 
which we sent away with word of our coming, by Mr. Ed- 
ward Pickering. The King supped alone in the coach; after 
that I got a dish, and we four supped in my cabin, as at 
noon. About bedtime, my Lord Bartlett’ (who I had offered 

1A mistake for Lord Berkeley, of Berkeley, who had been deputed, 


72 DIARY OF [24th May, 


my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, who with 
much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex,’ in the 
great cabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could 
dispose of him, and quit myself of him. So to my cabin 
again, where the company still was, and were talking more 
of the King’s difficulties; as how he was fain to eat a piece 
of bread and cheese out of a poor body’s pocket; how, at a 
Catholic house, he was fain to lie in the priest’s hole a good 
while in the house for his privacy. After that, our com- 
pany broke up. We have all the Lords Commissioners on 
board us, and many others. Under sail all night, and most 
glorious weather. 

24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the 
linning stockings on and wide canons’ that I bought the 
other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble company, 
and great mirth all the day. ‘There dined with me in my 
cabin (that is, the carpenter’s) Dr. Earle’ and Mr. Hollis, 
the King’s chaplains; Dr. Scarborough,* Dr. Quarterman,° 
and Dr. Clerke, physicians; Mr. Darcy,’ and Mr. Fox,’ 
(both very fine gentlemen) the King’s. servants; where we 
had brave discourse. Walking upon the decks, where per- 
sons of honour all the afternoon, among others, Thomas 


with Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords, to 
present an address of congratulation to the King. 

1 Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex. Ob. 1674, s. p. 

2 Sic. orig. 

3 John Earle, Dean of Westminster, successively Bishop of Worces- 
ter and Salisbury. Ob. 1665. 

*Charles Scarborough, M.D., principal physician to Charles II. (by 
whom he was knighted in 1669), James II. and William III., a learned 
and incomparable anatomist. 

5 William Quarterman, M.D., of Pembroke College, Oxford, another 
of the King’s physicians. 

6 Marmaduke, fifth son of Conyers Lord Darcy, one of the com- 
panions of Charles’s exile, whom the King was wont to call “Duke 
Darcey; and he is so styled in Charles’s narrative of his escape, as given 
to Pepys, page 4. On the pavement in the south aisle of St. George’s 
Chapel, Windsor, is the following inscription:—“Here lyeth the body 
of the Honourable Marmaduke Darcy, Esq., brother to the Earl of 
Holderness, first gentleman usher of the privy-chamber to His Majesty, 
who died in this castle on Sunday, the 3d of July, in the seventy-third 
year of his age, a.p. 1687.”"—Pote’s History of Windsor, p. 365. 


* Afterwards Sir Stephen Fox, Paymaster to the Forces. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 73 


Killigrew,* (a merry droll, but a gentleman of great esteem 
with the King) who told us many merry stories: one, how 
he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the Princess 
Royal, about a Queen Dowager of Judwa and Palestine, 
that was at the Hague incognita, that made love to the King, 
which was Mr. Cary (a courtier’s) wife, that had been a 
nun, who are all married to Jesus. At supper, the three 
Doctors of Physique again at my cabin; where I put Dr. 
Scarborough in mind of what I heard him say, that children 
do, in every day’s experience, look several ways with both 
their eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise; and that we 
do now see but with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel 
lines. After this discourse, I was called to write a pass for 
my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to London, which I 
wrote in the King’s name,” and carried it to him to sign, 
which was the first and only one that ever he signed in the 
ship Charles. To bed, coming in Sight of land a little 
before night. 

25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, 
and everybody made ready to get on shore. The King and 
the two Dukes did eat their breakfast before they went; and 
there being set some ship’s diet before them, only to show 
them the manner of the ship’s diet, they eat of nothing else 
but pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in 
my cabin; and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how 
the King had given 501. to Mr. Shepley for my Lord’s ser- 
vants, and 5001. among the officers and common men of the 
ship. I spoke to the Duke of York about business, who 
called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise 
me his future favour. Great expectation of the King’s 
making some Knights, but there was none. About noon 
(though the brigantine that Beale made was there ready to 
carry him) yet he would go in my Lord’s barge with the two 
Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare 
with him. I went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King’s 


*Younger son of Sir Robert Killigrew, of Hanworth, Middlesex, page 
of honour to Charles I., and groom of the bedchamber to Charles IL, 
whose fortunes he had followed. He was Resident at Venice, 1651; a 
great favourite with the King, on account of his uncommon vein of 
humour, and author of several plays. Ob. 1682. 


* This right of purveyance was abolished in Charles’s reign. 


TA DIARY OF [25th May, 


footmen, and a dog that the King loved, in a boat by our- 
selves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was re- 
ceived by General Monk with all imaginable love and respect 
at his entrance upon the land of Dover. Infinite the crowd 
of people and the gallantry of the horsemen, citizens and 
noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town come and 
gave him his white staff, the badge of his place, which the 
King did give him again. The Mayor also presented him 
from the town a very rich Bible, which he took, and said it 
was the thing that he loved above all things in the world. 
A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he 
did, and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so 
into a stately coach there set for him, and so away through 
the town towards Canterbury, without making any stay 
at Dover. The shouting and joy expressed by all is past 
imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of his 
barge, I got into a boat, and so into his barge, and we back 
to the ship, seeing a man almost drowned that fell into the 
sea. My Lord almost transported with joy that he had 
done all this without the least blur or obstruction in the 
world, that could give offence to any, and with the great 
honour he thought it would be to him. Being overtook by 
the brigantine, my Lord and we went out of our barge into 
it, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten’ and the Vice 


1Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, al- 
though unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made 
Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity 
against the King. The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the Earl 
of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, 
knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning 
that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a hun- 
dred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her majesty’s 
chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for safety into 
the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found favour with the Par- 
liament. But Batten became afterwards discontented; and, when a 
portion of the fleet revolted, he carried the Constant Warwick, one of 
the best ships in the Parliament navy, over into Holland, with several 
seamen of note. For this act of treachery he was knighted and made a 
Rear-Admiral by Prince Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the 
testoration, when he became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon 
after M.P. for Rochester. See an account of his second wife, in note to 
Noy. 24, 1660; and of his illness and death, 5th October, 1667. He 
had a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first lady. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 75 


and Rear-Admirals. At night I supped with the Captain, 
who told me what the King had given us. My Lord re- 
turned late, and at his coming did give me order to cause 
the mark to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be made 
at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with 
his own hand did mark his height, which accordingly I 
caused the painter to do, and is now done, as is to be seen. 

26th.. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke, and all the great com- 
pany being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day 
for want thereof. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral 
to-day, (who is as officious, poor man! as any spaniel can 
be; but I believe all to no purpose, for I believe he will not 
hold his place;) so I dined commander at the coach table 
to-day, and all the officers of.the ship with me, and Mr. 
White of Dover. After a game or two at nine pins, to 
work all the afternoon, making about twenty orders. In 
the evening, my Lord having been ashore, the first time 
that he hath been ashore since he come out of the Hope, 
(having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majesty 
into England,) returned on board with a great deal of plea- 
sure. The Captain [Roger Cuttance]| told me that my Lord 
had appointed me 30/. out of the 1000 ducats which the 
King had given to the ship. 

27th. (Lord’s day.) Called up by John Goods to see the 
Garter and Heralds’ coat, which lay in the coach, brought 
by Sir Edward Walker, King at Arms, this morning, for my 
Lord. My Lord had summoned all the Commanders on 
board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Ed- 
ward, putting on his coat, and having laid the George and 
Garter, and the King’s letter to my Lord, upon a crimson 
cushion, (in the coach, all the Commanders standing by), 
makes three congees to him, holding the cushion in his arms. 
Then, laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, 
he takes the letter and delivers it to my Lord, which my 
Lord breaks open and gives him to read. _ It was directed 
to our trusty and well beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, 
one of our Generals at sea, and our Companion elect of our 
Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the letter are 
to show that the Kings of England have for many years 
made use of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to 
persons of good extraction and valour, and that many Em- 


a 


76 DIARY OF [29th May, 


perors, Kings, and Princes of other countries have borne 
this honour; and that whereas my Lord is of a noble family, 
and hath now done the King such service by sea, at this 
time, as he hath done; he do send him this George and 
Garter to wear as Knight of the Order, with a dispensation 
for the other ceremonies of the habit of the Order, and 
other things, till hereafter, when it can be done. So the 
herald putting the Ribbon about his neck, and the Garter 
on his left leg, he saluted him with joy as Knight of the 
Garter. And after that was done, he took his leave of my 
Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canterbury, 
where he yesterday gave the like honour to General Monk,’ 
who are the only two for many years that have had the 
Garter given them, before they had honours of Earldom, or 
the like, excepting only the Duke of Buckingham, who was 
only Sir George Villiers when he was made Knight of the 
Garter.” The officers being all on board, there was no room 
for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where Mr. Drum 
brought me a lobster and a bottle of oil, instead of vinegar, 
whereby I spoiled my dinner. Late to a sermon. 

28th. Called up at two in the morning, for letters for my 
Lord from the Duke of York. The Captain did give every 
one of the men (not the boys) a ducat of the King’s money 
that he gave the ship; and the officers according to their 
quality. I received in the Captain’s cabin, for my share, 
sixty ducats. 

29th. The King’s birthday. Abroad to shore with my 
Lord, (which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a 
great deal of work to do this month, which was very true). 
On shore, we took horses, my Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. 
Hetly, and I, and three or four servants, and had a great 
deal of pleasure in riding. Among other things, my Lord 
showed me a house that cost a great deal of money, and is 
built in so barren and inconvenient a place, that my Lord 
calls it the fool’s house. At last, we came upon a very high 
cliff by the sea side, and rode under it; we having laid great 
wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as 


*His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes 
put on the Garter. The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for 
the restoration of that lawful family.—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


7 A.D. 1616. 


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Paul’s; my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we riding 
under it, my Lord made a pretty good measure of it with 
two sticks, and found it to be not above thirty-five yards 
high, and Paul’s is reckoned to be about ninety. From 
thence toward the barge again; and in our way found the 
people at Deal going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it 
being the King’s birthday, and had some guns which they 
did give fire to at my Lord’s coming by, for which I did give 
twenty shillings among them to drink. While we were on 
the top of the cliff, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet 
go off for the same joy; and it being a pretty fair day, we 
could see above twenty miles into France. Being returned 
on board, my Lord called for Mr. Shepley’s book of Paul’s, 
by which we were confirmed in our wager. ‘This day, it is 
thought the King do enter the City of London.* 

30th. I did eat a dish of mackarel, newly catched for my 
breakfast. All this morning making up my accounts, in which 
I counted that I had made myself now worth about 80l., at 
which my heart was glad, and blessed God. 

31st. Captain Sparling,’ of the Assistance, brought me a 
pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was much 
pleased with. This day the month ends. I in very good 
health, and all the world in a merry mood, because of the 
King’s coming. I begin to teach Mr. Edward,’ who has a 
very good foundation laid for his Latin, by Mr. Fuller. 

June Ist. Of the money that the Duke of York did give 
my Lord’s servants, 22 ducatoons came to my share. I did 
give Mr. Shepley the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I 
bought for myself five years ago. Many Dover men come 
and dine with my Lord. My Lord at nine-pins in the 
afternoon. Mr. Shepley tells me how my Lord hath put me 
down for 70 guilders among the money given to my Lord 
servants, which my heart did much rejoice at. Sir R. Stayner 
told us how some of his men did grumble that no more of 


1“ Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a 
petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship 
to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of his 
passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that they 
will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, and other 
ornaments of triumph and rejoicing.”—Rugge’s Diurnal, May 1660. 


? Thomas Sparling. ® Little Edward Montagu. 


78 DIARY OF [3d June, 


the Duke’s money do come to their share, and so would not 
receive any, whereupon he called up those that had taken it, 
and give them three shares apiece more, which made good 
sport among the seamen. At night, Mr. Cooke comes from 
London with letters, leaving all things there very gallant and 
joyful; and brought us word that the Parliament had or- 
dered the 29th of May, the King’s birthday, to be for ever 
kept as a day of thanksgiving for our redemption from ty- 
ranny, and the King’s return to his government, he entering 
London that day. My poor wife has not been well: she 
would fain see me and be at her house again, but we must be 
content. She writes how there was a talk that I should be 
knighted by the King, which they (the Joyces) laugh at; 
but I think myself happier in my wife and estate than they 
are. The Captain come on board quite fuddled; the Vice- 
Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and he, had been drinking all day. 
My Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers, he en- 
deavours to get Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth, and 
Mr. George for Dover. 

2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in 
his cabin, I took occasion to give thanks for his love to me 
in the share that he had given me of his Majesty’s money, 
and the Duke’s. He told me he hoped to do me a more 
lasting kindness, if all things stand as they are now between 
him and the King; but, says he, “ We must have a little 
patience, and we will rise together; in the mean time, I will 
do yet all the good jobs I can.” Which was great content 
for me to hear from my Lord. All the morning with the 
Captain, computing how much the thirty ships that come 
with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a 
— (because the King promised to give them all a 

nth’s pay), and it comes to 6538]., and the Charles par- 
ticularly 7771. I wish we had the money. 

3d. (Lord’s day.) Captain [Philip] Holland is come to 
get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to renew his 
commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord 
Mayor to set down their names, as such as do accept of his 
Majesty’s pardon, and showed me a certificate under the 
Lord Mayor’s hand, that he had done so. 

At sermon in the morning: after dinner into my cabin, to 


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cast my accounts up, and find myself to be worth near 1001., 
for which I bless Almighty God, it being more than I hoped 
for so soon, being, I believe, not clearly worth 251. when I 
come to sea, besides my house and goods. 

4th. This morning my Lord went on shore with the Vice- 
Admiral a-fishing. The Assistance being to go to Middle- 
burgh, for the King’s goods, I sent my Dutch money, 70 
ducatoons and 29 gold ducats, to be changed for English 
money, which is the first venture that ever I made, and so 
I am afraid of it. The King’s proclamation against drink- 
ing, swearing, and debauchery, was read to our ship’s com- 
panies in the fleet, and indeed it gives great satisfaction 
to all. 

5th. My Lord called for the lieutenant’s cittern, and 
with two candlesticks, with money in them, for symbols,* 
we made barbers’ music,” with which my Lord was well 
pleased. 

6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me, 
among other things, that my Lord’s place of Clerk of the 
Signet was fallen to him, which he did most lovingly tell me 
that I should execute, in case he could not get a better 
employment for me at the end of the year, because he 
thought that the Duke of York would command all; but 
he hoped that the Duke would not remove me but to my 
advantage. 

My letters tell me that Mr. Calamy* had preached before 
the King in a surplice, (this I heard afterwards to be false) ; 
that my Lord, General Monk, and three more lords, are 
made Commissioners for the Treasury; that my Lord had 
some great place conferred on him, and they say Master of 
the Wardrobe; that the two Dukes do haunt the Park | 


* Cymbals. 


?In the Notices of Popular Histories, printed for the Percy Society, 
there is a curious woodcut, representing the interior of a barber’s shop, 
in which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved, 
is playing on the “ ghittern ” till his turn arrives. Decker also mentions 
a “barber’s cittern,’ for every serving-man to play upon. This is no 
doubt “The barber’s music” with which Lord Sandwich entertained 
himself. 


®Edward Calamy, the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born 1616, 
appointed Chaplain to Charles the Second 1660. Ob. 1666. 


80 DIARY OF [13th June, 


much, and they were at a play, Madam Epicene,* the other 
day; that Sir Anthony Cooper,’ Mr. Hollis,* and Mr. An- 
nesly,* late Presidents of the Council of State, are made 
Privy Councillors to the King. 

7th. After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, 
with the sight of whom my heart was very glad. They 
brought an order for my Lord’s coming up to London, 
which my Lord resolved to do to-morrow. All the after- 
noon getting my things in order so set forth to-morrow. At 
night walked up and down with Mr. Moore, who did give 
me an account of all things at London. Among others, how 
the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst, but they 
will not be able to do any thing. Most of the commanders 
on board, and supped with my Lord. Laid out all my things 
against to-morrow, to put myself in a walking garb. 

8th. Out early, took horses at Deal. Dined at Canter- 
bury. I saw the Minster, and the remains of Becket’s tomb. 
To Sittingborne and Rochester: the ships and brigs come to 
Gravesend. 

9th. Landed at the Temple. To Whitehall with my Lord 
and Mr. Edward Montagu. Found the King in the Park. 
There walked. Gallantly great. 

10th. (Lord’s day.) At my father’s found my wife, and to 
walk with her in Lincoln’s Inn walks. 

11th. With my Lord to Dorset House,’ to the Chan- 
cellor. 

12th. With my Lord to the Duke of Gloucester. The 
two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I saw there a fine 
entertainment, and dined with the pages. 

13th. By water with my Lord in a boat to Westminster, 
and to the Admiralty, now in a new place, and to the Trea- 
surer of the Navy. 


1 Epicene, or the Silent Woman, a Comedy, by Ben Jonson. 

? Afterwards Chancellor, and created Earl of Shaftesbury. 

3 Afterwards Lord Hollis. * Afterwards Earl of Anglesey. 

° Dorset House, in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, at this time occupied 
by the Chancellor, once the residence of the Bishops of Salisbury, one 
of whom (Jewel) alienated it to the Sackville family. The house being 
afterwards pulled down, a theatre was built on its site, in which the 
Duke of York’s troop performed. The name is still preserved in Dorset 
Street. 


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14th. To my Lady Pickering, with the plate that she did 
give my Lord the other day. 

15th. My Lord told me how the King had given him the 
place of the great wardrobe.’ 

16th. To my Lord, and so to White Hall with him about 
the Clerk of the Privy Seal’s place, which he is to have. 
Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote some letters. Here 
Colonel Thompson told me, as a great secret, that the Nazeby 
was on fire when the King was there, but that is not known; 
when God knows it is quite false. Got a piece of gold from 
Major Holmes’ for the horse I brought to town. 

17th. (Lord’s day.) To Mr. Mussom’s; a good sermon. 
This day the organs did begin to play at White Hall before 
the King. After dinner to Mr. Mossum’s again, and so in 
the garden, and heard Chippell’s father preach, that was 
page to the Protector. By the window that I stood at sat 
Mrs. Butler,* the great beauty. Mr. Edward and I into 
Gray’s Inn walks, and saw many beauties. 

18th. To my Lord’s, where much business. With him to 
the Parliament House, where he did intend to have made his 
appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crewe upon the stairs, 
and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown’s and staid 
till word was brought him what was done in the House. 
This day they made an end of the twenty men to be excepted 
from pardon to their estates. By barge to Stepny with my 
Lord, where at Trinity House we had great entertainment. 


With my Lord there went Sir W. Pen,* Sir H. Wright, 


1 With an official residence, often referred to by Pepys. 

? Afterwards Sir Robert Holmes. He is styled “ Major,” although 
in the navy. Thus Lord Sandwich and Sir W. Pen were called “ Gene- 
rals:” see also Jan. 6, 1661-2. 

5See 25th July, 1660. 

‘Sir William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family 
of the Penns, of Penn Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of 
twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral 
of England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two. He was 
subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice- 
Admiral of Munster. After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he dis- 
tinguished himself as second in command under the Duke of York, he 
took leave of the sea, but continued to act as a Commissioner for the 
Navy till 1669, when he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily 
infirmities, and dying there, September 16, 1670, aged forty-nine, was 


VOL. I. G 


82 DIARY OF [20th June, 


Hetly, Pierce, Creed,’ Hill, I, and other servants. Back 
again to the Admiralty, and so to my Lord’s lodgings, where 
he told me that he did look after the place of the Clerk of 
the Acts for me. Murford showed me five pieces to get a 
business done for him, and I am resolved to do it. 

19th. Much business at my Lord’s. This morning my 
Lord went into the House of Commons, and there had the 
thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and 
Commons of England, for his late service to his King and 
country. A motion was made for a reward for him, but it 
was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, above most men, is en- 
gaged to my Lord’s and Crewe’s favours. Lady Pickering 
told me the story of her husband’s case, and desired my as- 
sistance with my Lord, and did give me, wrapped up in 
paper, 51. in silver. With my Lord to White Hall, and my 
Lady Pickering. My Lord went at night with the King to 
Baynard’s Castle, to supper, and I home. My wife and the 
girl and dog came home to-day. I found a quantity of choco- 
late left for me, I know not from whom. 

20th. With my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, be- 
cause he came home late from supper with the King) to the 
Parliament House, and after that, with him to General 
Monk’s, where he dined at the Cockpit. Thence to the 


buried in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monu- 
ment to his memory is still to be seen. 


John Creed of Oundle, Esq. From the way in which Pepys speaks 
of his friend, he was probably of humble origin, and nothing is known 
of his history previously to the Restoration, when he seems to have 
been a retainer in the service of Sir Edward Montagu. In 1662 he was 
made Secretary to the Commissioners, for Tangier, and in 1668 he mar- 
ried Elizabeth Pickering, the niece of his original patron, by whom he 
had eleven children. Major Richard Creed, the eldest son, who was 
killed at the battle of Blenheim, lies buried in Tichmarsh Church, in 
Northamptonshire, where there is also a monument erected to his father, 
describing him as “of Oundle,” and as having served King Charles the 
Second in divers honourable employments at home and abroad, lived 
with honour, and died lamented, A.D. 1701. What these employments 
were cannot now be ascertained. There exists still a cenotaph to the 
memory of the major in Westminster Abbey. Mrs. Creed, wife of 
John Creed of Oundle, Esq., was the only daughter of Sir Gilbert 
Pickering, Bart., by Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, 
and sister of Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich: see Malone’s 
Life of Dryden, p. 339, 


1660 SAMUEL PEPYS 83 


Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose 
business was a letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu 
to be chosen as a Parliament-man in my Lord’s room at 
Dover; and another to the Vice-Admiral to give my Lord a 
-constant account of all things in the fleet, merely that he 
may thereby keep up his power there; another letter to 
Captain Cuttance to send the barge that brought the King 
on shore, to Hinchingbroke by Lynne.* 

Qist. To my Lord, much business. At the Dog Tavern, 
Captain Curle, late of the Maria, gave me five pieces in gold 
and a silver can for my wife, for the commission I did give 
him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660. With my 
Lord to the Council Chamber, where he was sworn; and the 
charge of his being admitted Privy Councillor is 26/. Thence 
to the Parliament door, and with my Lord to see the Great 
Wardrobe, where Mr. Townsend brought us to the governor 
of some poor children in tawny clothes, who had been main- 
tained there these eleven years, which put my Lord to a stand 
how to dispose of them; but he may have the house for his 
own use. The children did sing finely, and my Lord bid me 
give them five pieces in gold at his going away. ‘To White 
Hall, where, the King being gone abroad, my Lord and I 
walked a great while, discoursing of the simplicity of the 
Protector, in his losing all that his father had left him. My 
Lord told me, that the last words that he parted with the 
Protector with (when he went to the Sound), were, that he 
should rejoice more to see him in his grave at his return 
home, than that he should give way to such things as were 
then in hatching, and afterwards did ruin him: and that the 
Protector said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill,” 
Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to do, he would 
do it, be it what it would. To my father’s, where Sir Tho- 
mas Honeywood and his family were come of a sudden, and 
so we forced to lie all together in a little chamber, three stories 
high. 

22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to 
Whitehall, where the Duke of York not being up, we walked 
a good while in the Shield Gallery. Mr. Hill (who for these 


1 Whence it could go by water-carriage: see note to Jan. 31, 1660-61. 
? Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, created Earl of Orrery, 1660. Ob. 
679, 


Gc 2 


84 DIARY OF [23d June, 


two or three days hath constantly attended my Lord) told 
me of an offer of 5001. for a baronet’s dignity, which I told 
my Lord of in the balcony of this gallery, and he said he 
would think of it. My dear friend, Mr. Fuller of Twicken- 
ham and I dined alone at the Sun Tavern, where he told me 
how he had the grant of being Dean of St. Patrick’s, in Ire- 
land; and I told him my condition, and both rejoiced one 
for another. ‘To give order for horses to be got to draw my 
Lord’s great coach to Mr. Crewe’s. Thence to my Lord’s, 
and had the great coach to Brigham’s, who give me a case of 
good julep, and told me how my Lady Monk deals with him 
and others for their places, asking him 500I., though he was 
formerly the King’s coachmaker, and sworn to it. ‘To bed 
the first time since my coming from sea, in my own house, 
for which God be praised. 

23d. To my Lord’s lodgings, where Tom Guy comes to 
me, and there staid to see the King touch people for the 
King’s evil. But he did not come at all, it rained so; and 


1This ceremony is of great. antiquity in England; perhaps it may be 
traced to Edward the Confessor. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of 
the House of Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown 
could not descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the 
form of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called 
the king’s evil. Burns asserts, History of Parish Registers, p. 144, “ that 
between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for the evil. 
Every one coming to the court for that purpose, brought a certificate 
signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had not at any time 
been touched by His Majesty. The register of Camberwell and other 
parishes contain the names of those to whom certificates had been 
given. In the time of Charles II. the practice was at its height (Evelyn’s 
Diary, March 28, 1684). On Nov. 5, 1688, Evelyn also states, that he 
saw king James touch for the evil, Pitan the Jesuit and Warner offici- 
ating. This was no doubt ‘the last time he performed the ceremony in 
England. In the first four years after his restoration, he “touched ” 
nearly 24,000 people. The ceremony was continued during the reigns 
of his successors; and so late as Lent, 1712, we find Dr. Johnson 
(Boswell’s Life, vol. i. p. 16) amongst the number of persons actually 
touched by Queen Anne. The practice was supposed to have expired 
with the Stuarts, but the point being disputed, reference was made tq, 
the library of the Duke of Sussex, and four several Oxford editions of 
the Book of Common Prayer were found, all printed after the accession 
of the house of Hanover, and all containing, as an integral part of the 
service, “The Office for the Healing.” Subsequently to the execution 
of Charles I., handkerchiefs dipped in his. blood were believed to possess 
the virtue of healing, of which an instance is related in Churchill’s 


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the poor people were forced to stand all the morning in the 
rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the 
Banquetting-House. With my Lord to my Lord Frezen- 
dorfe’s,, where he dined to-day. He told me that he had 
obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place for me, at 
which I was glad. 

24th. (Sunday.) Told Mr. G. Montagu from my letters 
he was likely to be chosen at Dover. 

25th. With my Lord at White Hall all the morning. I 
spoke with Mr. Coventry about my business, who promised 
me all the assistance I could expect. Dined with young Mr. 
Powell, lately come from the Sound, being amused at our 
great charges here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. 
Coventry, at the Leg in King Street. Thence to the Admi- 
ralty, where I met Mr. Turner, of the Navy Office, who did 
look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. He was very civil 
to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There come a letter 
from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but 
he refused to come to her, but meeting in White Hall with 
Sir Thomas Clarges, her brother, my Lord returned answer 
that he could not desist in my business; and that he believed 
that General Monk would take it ill if my Lord should name 
the officers in his army; and therefore he desired to have the 
naming of one officer in the fleet. With my Lord by coach 
to Mr. Crewe’s, and very merry by the way, discoursing of 
the late changes and his good fortune. Thence home, and 


Divi Britannici, p. 9; and very recently a pilgrimage was made from a 
distant part to Ashburnham in Sussex, in the hope of cure from the 
“touch” of the sheet in which the King’s body was wrapped; and 
which, with the King’s watch, is in the possession of the Earl of Ashburn- 
ham, the lineal descendant of John Ashburnham, his friend and faithful 
servant. The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the sore of 
the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten shillings. 
It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon was drawn, and 
the angel was hanged about the patient’s neck till the cure was perfected. 
—Genest’s Hist. of the Stage, vol. i. p. 143, ubi plura. The stamp has 
the impression of St. Michael the Archangel on one side, and a ship in 
full sail on the other. ‘“ My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of 
the King’s evil with three others on Tuesday.”—MS. Letter of William 
Greenhill to Lady Bacon, dated December 31, 1629, preserved at Aud- 
ley End. 


1 John Frederic de Friesendorff, Embassador from Sweden to Charles 
II., who created him a baronet 1661. 


86 DIARY OF [29th June, 


then with my wife to Dorset House, to deliver a list of the 
names of the justices of peace for Huntingdonshire. I met 
[there] Mr. Kipps, my old friend, now seal-bearer to the 
Lord Chancellor. 

26th. My Lord dined in his lodgings all alone to-day. I 
went to Secretary Nicholas, to carry him my Lord’s resolu- 
tions about his title which he had chosen, and that is Ports- 


mouth. Mr. Watts, a merchant, offered me 500I. if I would” 


desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct 
me in what I do herein. With Mr. Townsend to Bakewell,* 
the goldsmith’s, and there we chose 100]. worth of plate for 
my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas. 

27. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. 
Coventry to despatch my business of the Acts,” in which 
place everybody gives me joy, as if I were in it, which God 
send. Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regi- 
ment, who invited my Lord and his friends, as many as he 
would bring, to dinner at the Swan at Dowgate, a poor 
house, and ill dressed, but very good fish, and plenty. By 
coach to the Speaker’s, where my Lord supped with the 
King, but I could not get in. 

28th. To Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him 
since he come. He is so stingy a fellow I care not to see 
him; I quite cleared myself of his office, and did give him 
liberty to take anybody in. After this to my Lord, who lay 
a-bed till eleven o’clock, it being almost five before he went 
to-bed, they supped so late last night with the King. This 
morning I saw poor Bishop Wren* going to chapel, it being 
a thanksgiving-day for the King’s return. 

29th. Up and to White Hall, where I got my warrant 
from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I got my 


*Edward Bakewell, an alderman of London and opulent banker, 
ruined by the shutting up of the Exchequer in 1672, when he retired 
to Holland, where he died. 


'? The letters patent, dated 13th July, 12 Charles II., recite and revoke 
letters patent of 16th February, 14 Charles I., whereby the office of 
Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Flemming and Thomas 
Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. living, and 
Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of 331. 6s. 8d. per 
annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in travelling, and 6/. per 
annum for boat-hire and all fees due. 


* Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely. Ob. 1667, aged 82. 


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Lord’s warrant’ from the Secretary for his honour of Earl of 
Portsmouth and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So 
to my Lord, to give him an account of what I had done. 
Then to Sir Geffery Palmer,’ who told me that my Lord 
must have some good Latinist to make the preamble to his 
Patent, which must express his late service in the best 
terms that he can; and he told me in what high flaunting 
terms Sir J. Greenville had caued his to be done, which he 
do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe* had done Gene- 
ral Monk’s very well. Then to White Hall, where I was told 
by Mr. Hutchinson at the Admiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my 
predecessor, Clerk* of the Acts, is yet alive, and coming up 
to town to look after his place, which made my heart sad a 
little. At night told my Lord thereof, and he bad me get 
possession of my Patent; and he would do all that could be 
done to keep him out. This night my Lord and I looked 
over the list of the captains, and marked some that my Lord 
had a mind to put out. 

30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe, to draw up the pre- 
amble to my Lord’s Patent.” So to my Lord, and with him 
to White Hall, where I saw a great many fine antique heads 
of marble, that my Lord Northumberland’ had given the 
King. Meeting Mr. De Cretz,’ we looked over some of the 
pieces in the gallery, and he told me [by] whose hands they 
were, with great pleasure. With Sir Edward Walker for 
my Lord’s pedigree. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where 
I met with a letter from Mr. Turner, offering me 150/. to be 


1See July 10, 1660, and note. 

? Attorney-General, and Chief Justice of Chester, 1660; created a 
baronet, 1661. Ob. 1670. 

8Sir Richard Fanshawe, Knight and Baronet, Secretary to Charles 
II. in Scotland, and after the Restoration was sent as Ambassador to 
Spain, but was superseded by the Earl of Sandw ich as Extraordinary 
Ambassador. He was a good linguist, and “ gave our language,” says 
Campbell, “some of its earliest and most important translations from 
modern literature.” Ob. 1666. 

“In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the King came in, pre- 
served in the British Museum, there occur, Richard Hutchinson, Trea- 
sury of the Navy, salary 1500/.; Thomas Tourner, General Clerk, for 
himself and clerk, 1001. ; mentioned in the next page. 

® See the Appendix. 

* Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland. 

™Son of John De Creetz, sergeant-painter to James I. and Charles I. 


. 


88 DIARY OF [3d July, 


joined with me in my patent, and to advise me how to improve 
the advantage of my place, and to keep off Barlow. This 
day come Will [Wayneman], my boy, to me: the maid con- 
tinuing lame,so that my wife could not be longer without help. 


July 1st. (Lord’s day.) Infinite of business, my heart and ~ 


head full. Met with Purser Washington,’ with whom and 
a lady, a friend of his, I dined at the Bell Tavern in King 
Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to invite 
me, and to let me pay my club. This morning come home 
my fine camlet cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, 
which cost me much money, and I pray God to make me able 
to pay for it. In the afternoon to the Abbey, where a good 
sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer yet. 

2d. All the afternoon with my Lord, going up and down 
the town: at seven at night he went home, and there the 
principal officers of the Navy,’ among the rest myself was 
reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, to draw 
up such an order of the Council as would put us into action 
before our patents were passed. At which my heart was 
glad. At night supped with my Lord, he and I together, in 
the great dining-room alone, by ourselves, the first time I 
ever did it in London. 

3d. The Officers and Commissioners of the Navy all met 
at Sir G. Carteret’s* chamber, and agreed upon orders for 


1See Jan. 17th, 1659-60. 


2A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, 3lst May, 1660. (From a 
paper in the Pepysian Library, in Pepys’s own handwriting.) 
His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. 
Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. 
Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. 
Sir William Batten, Surveyor. 
Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts. 
John, Lord Berkeley, [of Stratton] 
Sir William Penn, Commissioners. 
Peter Pett, Esq. 


’ Sir George Carteret had originally been bred to the sea service, and 
became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and Governor of Jersey, 
where he obtained considerable reputation by his gallant defense of that 
Island against the Parliament forces. At the Restoration, he was made 
Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer of the Navy, and a Privy 
Councillor, and in 1661 was elected M.P. for Portsmouth. He con- 
tinued in favour with his sovereign till his death, in 1679, et. suze 80. 
He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Carteret, of 
St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and five daughters. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 89 


the Council to supersede the old ones, and empower us to 
act. Dined with Mr. Stevens, the Treasurer of the Navy, 
and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered 501. out of my own 
purse for one year, and the benefit of a Clerke’s allowance 
beside, which he thanked me for; but I find he hath some 
design yet in his head, which I could not think of. In the 
afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, by being told 
that Mr. Barlow was to inquire to-day for Mr. Coventry ; but 
at night I met with my Lord, who told me that I need not 
fear, for he would get me the place against the world. And 
when I come to W. Howe, he told me that Dr. Petty had 
been with my, Lord, and did tell him that Barlow was a 
sickly man, and did not intend to execute the place himself, 
which put me in great comfort again. 

4th. Up early, and with Commissioner Pett to view the 
houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, where I 
find the worst very good, and had great fears that they will 
shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. To Mr. Backe- 
well’s, the goldsmith, where I took my Lord’s 1001. in plate 
for Mr. Secretary Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being 
a state dish and cup in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost 
me above 191. Carried these and the money by coach to 
my Lord’s at White Hall, and from thence carried Nicholas’s 
plate to his house and left it there, intending to speak with 
him anon. So to my Lord’s, and walking all the afternoon 
in White Hall Court, in expectation of what shall be done 
in the Council as to our business. It was strange to see 
how all the people flocked together bare, to see the King 
looking out of the Council window. At night my Lord told 
me how my orders that I drew last night, about giving us 
power to act, are granted by the Council, at which I was 
very glad. 

5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jack- 
anapes coat with silver buttons. It rained this morning, 
which makes us fear that the glory of this day’ will be lost; 


1“ July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the 
House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. 
Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His 
Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets 
between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that 
day spent in the City of London.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


w* 


90 DIARY OF [sth July, 


the King and Parliament being to be entertained by the 
City to-day with great pomp. Mr. Hater’ was with me to- 
day, and I agreed with him to be my clerke. Being at White 
Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants go 
forth in the rain to the City, and it spoiled many a fine suit 
of clothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White 
Hall, not knowing how to get out because of the rain. Met 
with Mr. Cooling,” my Lord Chamberlain’s secretary, who 
took me to dinner among the gentleman waiters, and after 
dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he had a pro- 
ject for all of us Secretaries to join together, and get money 
by bringing all business into our hands. Thence to the Ad- 
miralty, where Mr. Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold 
up) went and walked an hour or two in the Park, he giving 
of me light in many things in my way in this office that I go 
about. And in the evening I got my presents of plate carried 
to Mr. Coventry’s. At my Lord’s at night come Dr. Petty 
to me, to tell me that Barlow was come to town, and 
other things, which put me into a despair, and I went to 
bed very sad. 

6th. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. Coventry 
and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy 
Office, whereby my mind was a little cleared, but my hopes 
not great. From thence Sir G. Carteret and I to the Trea- 
surer’s Office, where he set some things in order. At my 
Lord’s in the dark. William Howe and I did sing ex- 
tempores. 

7th. I took an order for the advance of the salaries of the 
officers of the Navy, and mine is raised to 3501. per annum. 

8th. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall chapel, where I got in 
with ease by going before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. 
Kipps. Here I heard very good musique, the first time that 
ever I remember to have heard the organs, and singing-men 
in surplices in my life. The Bishop of Chichester? preached 
before the King, and made a great flattering sermon, which 


1Thomas Hater. He remained with Pepys for some time; and by 
his assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions. 

? Richard Cooling, or Coling, A.M., of All-Souls’ College, Secretary 
to the Earls of Manchester and Arlington, when they filled the office of 
Lord Chamberlain, and a Clerk of the Privy Council in ordinary. There 
is a mezzotinto print of him in the Pepysian Library. 

* Henry King, Dean of Rochester, advanced to the See of Chichester, 
1641. Ob. 1669, 


Ye<S 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 91 


I did not like that the Clergy should meddle with matters 
of State. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook’s 
shop. Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till 
after sermon. There till Mr. Fairebrother’ come to call us 
out to my father’s to supper. He told me how he had per- 
fectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by proxy,” 
which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin 
Roger Pepys’ was the other day persuading me from it. 

9th. To the Navy Office,* where in the afternoon we met 
and sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first 
time. 

10th. This day I put on my new silk suit, the first that 
ever I wore in my life. Home, and called my wife, and took 
her to Clodins’s to a great wedding of Nan Hartlib to 
Mynheer Roder,’ which was kept at Goring House® with very 


William Fairbrother, in 1661 made D.D. at Cambridge per regias 
litteras. He was Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, and Senior 
Proctor of the University. He was taken prisoner at the battle of 
Naseby, while fighting on the King’s side, and sent to London.—Cole’s 
MSS., vol. xv. p. 122. 


?The Grace which passed the University on this occasion is preserved 
in Kennett’s Register, and commenced as follows:—Cum Sam. Pepys, 
Coll. Magd. Inceptor in Artibus in Regia Classe existat e Secretis, ex- 
indeq. apud mare adeo occupatissimus ut Comitiis proximé futuris in- 
teresse non posit; placet vobis ut dictus S. P. admissionem suam, 
necnon creationem recipiat ad gradum Magistri in Artibus sub persona 
Timothei Wellfit, Inceptoris, &c.—June 26, 1660. See also Diary, 
Aug. 14, 1660. 


3 Roger Pepys, a Barrister, M.P. for Cambridge, 1661, and afterwards 
Recorder of that town. 


*The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly 
belonging to the Fratres Sanctze Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all 
business connected with Naval concerns was transacted there, till its 
removal to Somerset House. The ground is now occupied by the East 
India Company’s warehouses. 


5 Afterwards knighted, Aug. 5, 1660, as Sir John Roder. See Diary, 
Aug. 7, 1660. Le Neve calls him Roth, and says he was of Utrecht. 
Nan Hartlib was sister to Samuel Hartlib. 


* Goring House was burnt in 1674, at which time Lord Arlington re- 
sided in it. The magnificence of Goring House is fully described by 
Evelyn, and its destruction by fire. The title of its owner is preserved 
in Arlington Street. “This was the town residence of George Lord 
Goring, Earl of Norwich, and of his son, the second peer, who died 
s. p. in 1670. The house occupied the site of the Mulberry Gardens, 
upon which Buckingham Palace now stands. It was let to Lord 


92 DIARY OF [12th July, 


great state, cost, and noble company. But among all the 
beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest. _And 
finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to 
the Secretary’s, which he did, and desired the despatch of his 
and my bills to be signed by the King. His bill is to be 
Earl of Sandwich,’ Viscount Hinchingbroke, and Baron of 
St. Neot’s. Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not return- 
ing, as I said I would, to see the bride put to bed. 

11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy Office, 
where we met and despatched business. And that being 
done, we went all to dinner to the Dolphin, upon Major 
Brown’s invitation. After that, to the office again, where I 
was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy 
fellow come to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Bark- 
ley, [of Stratton,] and the combining between him and Sir 
W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled much at it. 

12th. Up early, and by coach to White Hall with Com- 
missioner Pett, where, after we had talked with my Lord, 
I went to the Privy Seal, and got my bill perfected there, 
and at the Signet; and then to the House of Lords, and 
met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get 
my patent engrossed; but he, not having time to get it done 
in Chancery-hand, I was forced to run all up and down 
Chancery Lane and the Six Clerks’ Office, but could find 
none that could write the hand that were at leisure. And 
so in despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first 
time there, my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, [of Strat- 
ton,] Mr. Coventry, and all the rest of the principal Officers 
and Commissioners, except only the Comptroller, who is not 
yet chosen. 


Arlington, by the second Earl of Norwich, and called after the tenant.” 
—Cunningham’s Hand-Book of London, p. 206, edit. 1850. 


*The motive for Sir Edward Montagu’s so suddenly altering his in- 
tended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as a 
compliment to the Town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying, 
before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also 
received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal men 
at Sandwich; and it may be recollected as an additional reason, that 
one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been placed at 
the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of Portsmouth was given, in 
1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de Querouaille, and becoming 
extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred upon John Wallop, Viscount 
Lymington, the ancestor of the present Earl of Portsmouth. 


* 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 93 
13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black 


camlett coat with silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I 
found in his night-gown writing of my patent. It being 
done, we carried it to Worcester House,’ to the Chancellor, 
where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now 
be in a condition to do me a kindness) got me the Chancel- 
lor’s recipe to my bill; and so carried it to Mr. Beale for a 
docket; but he was very angry, and unwilling to do it, be- 
cause he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ by 
another hand, and not by him); but by much importunity 
I got Mr. Spong to go to his office and make an end of my 
patent; and in the mean time Mr. Beale to be preparing my 
docket, which being done, I did give him two pieces, after 
which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me. 
Met with Mr. Spong, who still would be giving me council 
of getting my patent out, for fear of another change, and my 
Lord Montagu’s fall. At the Navy Office I got leave to 
have a door made me into the leads. After that to Worcester 
House, where, by Mr. Kipps’s means, and my pressing in 
General Montagu’s name to the Chancellor, I did, beyond 
all expectation, get my seal passed: and while it was doing 
in one room, I was forced to keep Sir G. Carteret (who by 
chance met me there, ignorant of my business) in talk. To 
my wife, whom I had left in a coach, and presented her with 
my patent, at which she was overjoyed; so to the Navy 
Board, and showed her my house,” and both mightily pleased. 
I to my Lords, where I despatched an order for a ship to 
fetch Sir R. Honywood home, for which I got two pieces. 
Late writing letters; and great doings of musique at the 
next house, which was Whally’s; the King and Dukes 
there with Madame Palmer,’ a pretty woman that they had 
a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold. Here at the 


1The Earls of Worcester had a large house in the Strand on the 
water-side, on what is now Beaufort Buildings, which Lord Clarendon 
rented while his own was building. See also Aug. 20, 1660, and Aug. 
19, 1661. 


*In Seething Lane. See July 18th, infra. 


Barbara Villiers, only child of William Viscount Grandison, wife 
of Roger Palmer, created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the 
King’s mistress at the Restoration, and was, in 1670, made Duchess of 
Cleveland. She died 1709, aged sixty-nine. One of her sons by 
Charles II. was created Duke of Grafton. See note to Jan. 17, 1661-62. 


94 DIARY OF [17th July, 


old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and 
W. Howe, did stand listening a great while to the musique. 

14th. Comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher," the poet, and pro- 
mises me what he had long ago done, a book in praise of 
the King of France, with my arms, and a dedication to me, 
very handsome. ‘Took Mr. Butler (Monsieur L’Impertinent) 
to see my house, and did give him a glass of wine at Rawlin- 
son’s, and was trimmed in the street. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) My wife and I mightily pleased 
with our new house that we hope to have. My patent has 
cost me a great deal of money; about 40]. In the afternoon 
to Henry the Seventh’s Chapel, where I heard service and a 
sermon. Dined with my Lord, whom I find plainly to be a 
sceptic in all things of religion, but to be a perfect stoic. 

17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings now-a- 
days) much business at my Lord’s. There come to my 
house before I went out Mr. Barlow,’ an old consumptive 
man, and fair conditioned. After much talk, I did grant 
him what he asked, viz., 501. per annum if my salary be not 
increased, and 100/. per annum in case it be 350 1., at which 
he was very well pieased to be paid as I received my money, 
and not otherwise, so I brought him to my Lord’s bedside, 
and he and I did agree together. Will,’ Mr. Blackburne’s 
nephew, is so obedient, that I am greatly glad of him. 


1Payne Fisher, who styled himself Paganus Piscator, was born in 
1616, in Dorsetshire, and removed from Hart Hall, Oxford, of which he 
had been a commoner, to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1634; and 
there took a degree of B. A., and first discovered a turn for poetry. He 
was afterwards a Captain in the King’s service at Marston Moor fight; 
but leaving his command, employed his pen against the cause which he 
had supported with his sword, and became a favourite of Cromwell’s. 
After the King’s return, he obtained a scanty subsistence by flattering 
men in power, and was frequently imprisoned for debt. He died 1693 
in the Fleet Prison (Harl. MS. 1460). He published several poems, 
chiefly in Latin; and, in 1682, printed a book of Heraldry, with the 
arms of such of the gentry as he had waited upon with presentation 
copies. He was a man of talents, but vain, unsteady, and conceited, 
and a great time-server. 


2 See ante, June 27th, and note. 


* William Hewer, of whose family nothing more is known except that 
his father died of the plague, 14th Sept. 1665. He became afterwards 
a Commissioner of the Navy, and Treasurer for Tangier; and was the 
constant companion of Pepys, who died in his house at Clapham, pre- 


1060] SAMUEL PEPYS 95 


18th. This morning we met at the office: I dined at my 
house in Seething Lane. 

19th. At the Dog Tavern. We did talk of our old dis- 
course when we did use to talk of the King, in the time of 
the Rump, privately; after that to the Admiralty Office, in 
White Hall, where I stayed and writ my late obervations 
for these four days last past. Great talk of the difference 
between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Clergy, but I be- 
lieve it will come to nothing. 

20th. I sent my wife to my father’s, and he is to buy 
51. worth of pictures. 

21st. To Mr. Barlow at his lodgings at the Golden 
Eagle, in the new street’ between Fetter Lane and Shoe 
Lane. Dined at a club, where we had three voices to sing 
catches. About business of my Lord’s concerning his 
creation.” 

22d. (Lord’s day.) After dinner to White Hall, where 
I find my Lord at home, and walked in the garden with him, 
he showing me all respect. I left him, and went to walk in 
the inward Park, but could not get in; one man was basted 
by the keeper, for carrying some people over on his back 
through the water. Home, and at night had a chapter 
read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer 
Book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. 
So to bed. 

23d. Mr. Barlow and I signed and sealed our agreement. 
After dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary Nicho- 
las ;* and before him and Secretary Morris,* my Lord and I 
upon our knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and 


viously the residence of Sir Dennis Gauden. Mr. Hewer was buried in 
the old church at Clapham, where a large monument of marble, with 
his bust in alto-relievo, erected to his memory, was, on the rebuilding of 
the church, placed outside, and in November, 1852, nearly destroyed. 
See the Appendix for the inscription. 


1 Still known as New Street, in which is the Queen’s Printing Office. 
7In the peerage. 


°Sir Edward Nicholas, many years principal Secretary of State to 
Charles the First and Second; dismissed, in 1663, from his office 
through the intrigues of Lady Castlemaine, and ob. 1669, aged seventy- 
seven. 


*Sir William Morris, Secretary of State from 1660 to 1668. Ob. 
1676. He was kinsman to General Monk. 


96 a DIARY OF [26th July, 


Supremacy, and the Oath of the Privy Seal, of which I was 
much glad, though I am not likely to get any thing by it at 
present; but I do desire it, for fear of a turn-out of our 
office. Mr. Barlow by appointment came and dined with 
me, and both of us very pleasant and pleased. 

24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins 
with my being sworn into the Privy Seal, at which he was 
much troubled, but did offer me a kinsman of his to be my 
clerk. In the afternoon I spent much time in walking in 
White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe,* who was very glad 
of my Lord’s being sworn, because of his business with his 
brother Baron,’ which is referred to my Lord Chancellor, 
and to be ended to-morrow. Baron had got a grant be- 
yond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the Privy 
Seal. 

25th. I got my certificate of my Lord’s and my being 
sworn. ‘This morning my Lord took leave of the House of 
Commons, and had the thanks of the House for his great 
service to his country.” We met Mr. L’Impertinent’® with 
his mother and sisters and father coming from the Gate- 
house, where they lodge, and I did the first time salute them 
all, and very pretty Madam Frances* is. 

26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of 
my Lord and the principal officers, but my Lord could not, 
it being the day that he was to go and be admitted in the 
House of Lords, his patent being done, which he presented 
upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read in the 
House, and he took his place. T. Doling carried me to St. 
James’s Fair,’ and there meeting with W. Symons and his 
wife, and Luellin, and D. Scobell’s wife and cousin, we went 
to Wood’s at the Pell Mell (our old house for clubbing), and 
there we spent till ten at night. 


*They were both Clerks of the Privy Seal. 

?In the Journals this is stated to have taken place July 24. 

3’ Mr. Butler: see ante, 14th July. 

*Mr. Butler’s sister: see 17th June, 1660, and 23rd June, 1661. 

5In August of the following year, the fair, called St. James’s Fair, 
was kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; during which time 
many lewd and infamous persons were committed by the King’s com- 
mands.—Rugge’s Diurnal. It was afterwards known as May Fair, and 
not finally abolished till the reign of George III. See art. “St. James’s 
Fair,” in Hand-book of London, p. 255, edit. 1850. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 97 


27th. I find myself worth about 1001. after all my ex- 
penses. We got a coach, but the horses were tired, and 
could not carry us farther than St. Dunstan’s. 

28th. A boy brought me a letter from Poet Fisher, who 
tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, and de- 
sired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. 
To Westminster, and there met Mr. Henson, who had for- 
merly had the brave clock that went with bullets’ (which 
is now taken away from him by the King, it being his 
goods. ) 

29th. (Lord’s day.) With my Lord to White Hall 
Chapel, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of Salis- 
bury’s, Duppa’s,’ and the ceremonies did not please me, they 
do so overdo them. My Lord went to dinner at Kensington 
with my Lord Camden.* 

30th. This afternoon I got my 50l., due to me for my 
first quarter’s salary as Secretary to my Lord, paid to Thomas 
Hater for me, which he received and brought home to me, 
of which I felt glad. At the Rhenish wine-house, drinking. 
The sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, 
with whom we sat late, discoursing about the worth of my 
office of Clerk of the Acts, which he hath a mind to buy, 
and I ask four years’ purchase. 

31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal 


1Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an inclined 
plane, which turns every minute. The King’s clocks probably dropped 
bullets. Gainsborough the painter had a brother who was a dissenting 
minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a strong genius for me- 
chanics. He invented a clock of a very peculiar construction, which, 
after his death, was deposited in the British Museum. It told the hour 
by a little bell, and was kept in motion by a leaden bullet, which dropped 
from a spiral reservoir at the top of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. 
This was so contrived as to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of 
a counter-weight was carried up to the top of the clock, where it re- 
ceived another bullet, which was discharged as the former. This seems 
to have been an attempt at the perpetual motion.—Gentleman’s Mag. 
1785, p. 931. 


?Brian Duppa, successively Bishop of Chichester, Salisbury, and 
Winchester. Ob. 1662. 


® Baptist Noel, second Viscount Campden, Lord Lieutenant of Rut- 
landshire. Ob. 1683. Campden House was occupied in 1846 as a 
Ladies’ School; it contained some fine rooms, of which engravings have 
been made. 


VOL I. H 


98 DIARY OF [8d August, 


officers met, and had a great discourse about raising of 
money for the Navy, which is in very sad condition, and 
money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerke, 
and I, to the Quaker, and dined there. I back to the Admi- 
ralty, and there was doing things in order to the calculating 
of the debts of the Navy and other business, all the after- 
noon. At night I went to the Privy Seal, where I found 
Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all their things to leave 
the office to-morrow, to those that come to wait the next 
month. 

August Ist. In the afternoon at the office, where we had 
many things to sign; and I went to the Council Chamber, 
and there got my Lord to sign the first bill, and the rest all 
myself ; but received no money to-day. 

2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and 
Sir W. Pen, (our servants in another boat) to the Admi- 
ralty; and from thence I went to my Lord’s to fetch him 
thither, where we stayed in the morning about ordering of 
money for the victuallers, and advising how to get a sum of 
money to carry on the business of the Navy. From thence 
W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy Seal, where I stayed 
all the afternoon, and received about 401. for yesterday and 
to-day, at which my heart rejoiced for God’s blessing to me, 
to give me this advantage by chance, there being of this 401. 
about 10]. due to me for this day’s work. So great is the 
present profit of this office, above what it was in the King’s 
time; there being the last month about 300 bills, whereas 
in the late King’s time it was much to have 40. I went 
and cast up the expense that I laid out upon my former 
house (because there are so many that are desirous of it, 
and I am, in my mind, loth to let it go out of my hands, for 
fear of a turn.) I find my layings-out to come to about Q0I. 
which with my fine will come to about 22. to him that shall 
hire my house’ of me. 

3d. By coach with my wife to Dr. Clerke’s to dinner. I 
was very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, 
though not handsome, but a woman of the best language I 
ever heard.” 


1In Axe Yard. ?Compare 2d May, 1662; 13th Jan., 1662-3; 
and 6th July, 1664. 


es 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 99 


4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with 
the King by water to dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson, 
Lieutenant." I found my Lady Jemimah* at my Lord’s, with 
whom I staid and dined, all alone; after dinner at the Privy 
Seal Office, signing things and taking money all day. I could 
not go to the Red Bull playhouse,* as I intended. So to a 
committee of Parliament, (Sir Heneage Finch,* chairman) to 
give them an answer to an order of theirs, * that we could 
not give them any account of the Accounts of the Navy in 
the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, as they desire.” 

5th. (Lord’s day.) After dinner to St. Margaret’s; the 
first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that church. At 
Westminster stairs a fray between Mynheer Clinke and a 
waterman made good sport. 

6th. This night Mr. Man offered me 10001. for my office 
of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; but 
yet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his 
consent. 

7th. Mr. Moore and myself dined at my Lord’s with 
Mr. Shepley. While I was at dinner in come Samuel Hart- 
libb® and his brother-in-law,’ now knighted by the King, to 
request my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I 
had promised to get for them. After dinner to the Privy 
Seal all the afternoon. At night, meeting Samuel Hartlibb, 
he took me by coach to Kensington, to my Lord of Hol- 
land’s; I staid in the coach while he went in about his 
business. 


8th. To Mr. Butler’s, to see his daughters. We found 


1Sir John Robinson, created a baronet for his services to Charles II. 
1660, and had an augmentation to his arms. He was Lord Mayor of 
London, 1663. He retained the Lieutenancy of the Tower till 1678. A 
portrait of him is as Mr. Vernon Smith’s, at Farming Woods, in North- 
amptonshire. 

?Lady Jemima Montagu. 


3It stood in St. John Street on what is now Red Bull Yard, St. John 
Street Road. See 23d March, 1661. . 

* Solicitor-General, 1660; Lord Keeper, 1673; Chancellor, 1675; created 
Earl of Nottingham, 1681. Ob. 1682. 

5Samuel Hartlib, son of a Polish merchant, and author of several 
ingenious works on agriculture, for which he had a pension from Crom- 
well. 

*Sir John Roder, or Roth. See ante, July 10th. 

H 2 


100 DIARY OF [12th August, 


them very pretty, and Colonel Dillon’ there, a very merry 
and witty companion. 

Sth. With Judge-Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. 
Shepley, to the Rhenish wine-house,’ and Captain Hayward 
of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to carry my Lord 
Winchelsea Embassador to Constantinople. We were very 
merry, and Judge-Advocate did give Captain Hayward his 
Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. 

10th. With Mr. Moore and Creed to Hyde Park by 
coach, and saw a fine foot-race three times round the Park, 
between an Irishman and Crow, that was once my Lord 
Claypoole’s* footman. (By the way, I cannot forget that my 
Lord Claypoole did the other day make inquiry of Mrs. 
Hunt concerning my house in Axe Yard, and did set her on 
work to get it of me for him, which methinks is a very great 
change.) Crow beat the other by about two miles. Unable 
to think of any thing, because of my constant business, not 
having read a new book or inquiring after any news. Many 
people look after my house in Axe Yard, to hire it, so that 
I am troubled with them. But blessed be God for my good 
chance of the Privy Seal, where I get every day I believe 
about 3l. This place my Lord did give me by chance, 
neither he nor I thinking it to be of the worth that he and 
I find it to be. 

12th. (Lord’s day.) To my Lord, and with him to White 
Hall Chapel, where Mr. Calamy preached, and made a good 
sermon upon these words, *““T'o whom much is given, of him 
much is required.” He was very officious with his three 


*Frances Butler’s suitor: see ante, 25th July, and post, 31st Dec. 
1662. 


? In Channel, now Cannon Row, Westminster, at the end of a passage 
leading from King Street. It is mentioned again Nov. 24, 1660. There 
was another Rhenish wine-house in’ Crooked Lane. See May 23, 
1661. 


>John Lorn Claypole married, 1645, Mary, second daughter of 
Oliver Cromwell, to whom he became Master of the Horse, and a Lord 
of the Bedchamber: he was also placed in his father-in-law’s Upper 
House. During Richard Cromwell’s time he retained all his places at 
Court; and at the Restoration, never having made an enemy whilst his 
relations were in power, he was not molested, and lived till 1688. His 
father had been proceeded against in the Star Chamber, for resisting the 
payment of Ship Money, and was by Cromwell constituted Clerk of the 
Hanaper, and created a baronet. 


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reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave 
anthem of Captain Cooke’s,* which he himself sung, and the 
King was well pleased with it. My Lord dined at my Lord 
Chamberlain’s.* 

13th. My father tells me that he hath propounded Mr. 
John Pickering for Sir Thomas Honywood’s daughter, which 
I think he do not deserve for his own merit. I know not 
what he may do for his estate. 

14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord’s, where 
Mr. Pim, the tailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet 
coat. From thence to the Privy Seal again, where Sir 
Samuel Morland come with a baronet’s grant to pass, 
which the King had given him to make money of. Here 
we Staid with him a great while; and he told me the whole 
manner of his serving the King in the time of the Pro- 
tector; and how Thurloe’s bad usage made him to do it; 
how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he had sunk his 
fortune for the King; and that now the King had given 
him a pension of 5001. per annum out of the Post Office for 
life, and the benefit of two baronets; all which do make me 
begin to think that he is not so much a fool as I took him 
to be. I did make even with Mr. Fairebrother for my 
degree of Master of Arts,* which cost me about 9I. 16s. 
At night good sport, having the girl and boy to comb my 
head. 

15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White 
Hall, where I found the King gone this morning by five 
of the clock to see a Dutch pleasure-boat® below bridge, 
where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire 
all his people that are about him with early rising since 
he come. 

16th. My Lord took leave, and so for Hinchingbroke. 
My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crewe in the coach 
with him. 


1Henry Cooke, who had served in the Royal army, and obtained a 
captain’s commission, was made, at the Restoration, Master of the 
Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an excellent musician, and died 
in 1672. He was one of the original performers in the Siege of Rhodes. 
Captains Cooke and Cocke require to be accurately distinguished. 

2The Earl of Manchester. %See 15th May, 1660. 

*See ante, July 8th, and note. 

5 Afterwards noticed in Nov. 8th, 1660, and Jan. 13th, 1660-61. 


UNIVER cre 


TIFORNIA 


102 DIARY OF [20th August, 
17th. At the Half Moon I saw Mr. Creed show the 


strangest emotions to shift off his drink I ever saw. 

18th. Towards Westminster by water. I landed my wife 
at Whitefriars, with 5/. to buy her a petticoat, and my 
father persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth, of 26s. a 
yard, and a rich lace, that the petticoat will come to 51.; 
but she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. 
Captain Ferrers took me and Creed to the Cockpit play, the 
first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, 
“The Loyall Subject,’* where one Kinaston,” a boy, acted 
the Duke’s Sister [Olympia], but made the loveliest lady 
that ever I saw in my life. After the play done, we 
went to drink, and by Captain Ferrers’ means, Kinaston, . 
and another that acted Archas the General, came and drank 
with us. 

19th. (Lord’s day.) This morning Sir William Batten, 
Pen, and myself, went to church to the churchwardens, to 
demand a pew, which at present could not be given us; but 
we are resolved to have one built. So we staid, and heard 
Mr. Mills,* a very good minister. Home to dinner, where 
my wife had on her new petticoat that she bought yester- 
day, which indeed is a very fine cloth and a fine lace; but 
that being of a light colour, and the lace all silver, it makes 
no great shew. 

20th. This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning 
with Mr. Moore, he had got 1001. for me together, which I 
was glad of, guessing that the profit of this month would 
come to 1001. With W. Hewer by coach to Worcester 
House,* where I light, sending him home with the 1001. 
that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my Lord 


1A Tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 


?Edward Kynaston, engaged by Sir W. Davenant, in 1660, to per- 
form the principal female characters: he afterwards assumed the male 
ones in the first parts of tragedy, and continued on the stage till the 
end of King William’s reign. He died in 1712. Who played Archas 
is unknown; but Betterton, as Downes tells us, was early distinguished 
for playing in The Loyal Subject. 

’ Daniel Milles, D.D., thirty-two years rector of St. Olaves, Hart 
Street, and buried there, October 1689, aged sixty-three. In 1667, Sir 
Robert Brooks presented him to the rectory of Wanstead, in Essex, 
which he also held till his death, 


“See ante, 13th July, 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 103 


Chancellor come into his great Hall, where wonderful 
how much company there was to expect him. Before 
he would begin any business he took my papers of the 
state of the debts of the Fleet, and there viewed them 
before all the people, and did give me his advice privately 
how to order things to get as much money as we can of the 
Parliament. 

21st. I met Mr. Crewe and diyed with him, where there 
dined one Mr. Hickeman,* an Oxford man, who spoke very 
much against the height of the now old clergy, for putting 
out many of the religious fellows of colleges, and inveighing 
against them for their being drunk. ‘To the Brazen Nose 
tavern. It being post-night, I wrote to my Lord to give 
him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is 
made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts* (made 
Deputy) do not like of, to be deputy to any man but the 
King himself. 

22d. In the House, after the Committee was up, I met 
with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed him in his entrance (this 
being his $d day) for Dover. Here he made me sit all 
alone in the House, none but he and I, half an hour, dis- 
coursing how there was like to be many factions at Court 
between Marquis Ormond,’ General Monk, and the Lord 
Roberts, about the business of Ireland; as there is already 
between the two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and 
in the House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and 
Presbyterian men. Walked with Mr. Herring, the minister 
of St. Bride’s. 

23d. By water to Doctors? Commons, to Dr. Walker,* to 


1Henry Hickman, a native of Worcestershire, took the degree of 
B.A. at St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, and, migrating to Oxford, ob- 
tained a fellowship at Magdalen College, from the usurping powers, 
which he lost in 1660, to make room for the rightful owner. He then 
retired to Holland and passed most of his time abroad, dying at Leyden, 
in 1692. He wrote several theological tracts, and was considered a 
severe enemy to the ceremonies of the Church of England. 


2 John Robartes, second Lord Robartes, advanced to the Earldom of 
Radnor, 1679. Ob. 1685. He married one of the daughters of Sir 
John Cutler. 

8’ James Butler, afterwards created Duke of Ormond, and K.G., and 
twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 


*One of the Judges of the Admiralty. 


104 DIARY OF [29th August, 


give him my Lord’s papers to view over, concerning his 
being empowered to be Vice-Admiral under the Duke of 
York. With Sir W. B. and Sir W. P. to dinner at a 
tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited to a 
roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and 
company. Thence by water to White Hall, to the Parlia- 
ment House, where I spoke with Colonel Birch,* and so to 
the Admiralty chamber, where we and Mr. Coventry had a 
meeting about several businesses. Amongst others, it was 
moved that Phineas Pett,” (kinsman to the Commissioner) 
of Chatham, should be suspended his employment till he 
had answered some articles put in against him, as that he 
should formerly say that the King was a bastard and his 
mother a strumpet. Eat a musk melon,’ the first I have 
tasted this year. 

25th. This night W. Hewer brought me home from Mr. 
Pim’s my velvet coat and cap, the first that ever I had. 

26th. (Lord’s day.) To the parish church, where we are 
placed in the highest pew of all. A stranger preached a te- 
dious long sermon. To church again in the afternoon with 
my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night. 

27th. Come a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr. Pierce, 
the purser, to me, and a brave Turkey-carpet and a jar of 
olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fine turtle-doves 
from John Burr, to my wife. Major Hart come to me, whom 
I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so 
dry, that I was ill with them all night, and was fain to have 
the girl rise and fetch me some drink. 

28th. Colonel Scroope* is this day excepted out of the Act 
of Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but 
it is expected to-morrow. I carried home 801. from the 
Privy Seal, by coach. 

29th. My wife discovered my boy Will’s [Wayneman ] 


Colonel John Birch represented Leominster at that time, and after- 
wards Penryn. He was an active Member of Parliament. 

2? Employed by the Admiralty as a ship-builder. 

3 Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner 
brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The 
ordinary price was five or six shillings.—Quarterly Review, vol. xix., 
p- 20. 

*Colonel Adrian Scrope, one of the persons who sat in judgment 
upon Charles I. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 105 


theft, and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I 
was vexed, and intend to put him away. 

30th. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of In- 
demnity (so long talked-of and hoped for) with the Act of 
Rate for Poll-money, and for judicial proceedings. This the 
first day that ever I saw my wife wear black patches since 
we were married. My Lord come to town to-day. 

31st. With my Lord to the Duke’s chamber. He is or- 
dered to go suddenly to sea. 

September Ist. All this afternoon sending express to 
the fleet, to order things against my Lord’s coming; and 
taking direction of my Lord about some rich furniture to 
take along with him for the Princess... And talking after 
this, I hear by Mr. Townsend that there is the greatest pre- 
paration against the Prince de Ligne’s* coming over from 
the King of Spain, that ever was in England, for their Em- 
bassador. 

2d. Sunday to St. Margaret’s; heard a good sermon 
upon “Teach us the right way,” or something like it, 
wherein he [the preacher] run over all the new tenets in 
policy and religion, that had brought us into all our late 
divisions. 

_ 8d. Up, and to Mr. , the goldsmith, where I bought 
my wedding-ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put 
a gold ring to the jewel which the King of Sweden did give 
my Lord: out of which my Lord had now taken the King’s 
picture, and intends to make a George of it. About noon, 
my Lord, having taken leave of the King in the Shield 
Gallery,’ (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug 
my Lord at his parting) I went over with him and saw him 
in his coach at Lambeth, and there took leave of him, he 
going to the Downs. I am to get my Lord a toilet-cap, 


*The Princess of Orange. See ante, note 16th May. 


*Claude Lamoral, Prince de Ligne, had commanded the cavalry in 
the Low Countries, was afterwards Viceroy of Sicily, and Governor of 
Milan. He died at Madrid, in 1679. He had married, by dispensation, 
his cousin Maria Clara of Nassau, widow of his brother Albert Henry, 
who had died without issue. In our own time, his descendant, the 
Prince de Ligne, was Ambassador Extraordinary from Belgium at the 
coronation of Queen Victoria. 


* At Whitehall. 


mo) DIARY OF [13th Sept. 


and comb-case of silk, to make use of in Holland, for he 
goes to the Hague. 

4th. Looking over the joiners, flooring my dining-room. 

5th. I put away my boy,* and tore his indentures. Great 
news now-a-day of the Duke d’Anjou’s* desire to marry the 
Princess Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be taken. ‘The 
Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the 
smallpox. 

6th. Sir W. Batten told me how Commissioner Pett did 
pay himself for the entertainment that he did give the King 
at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the time he 
was in Holland, which I wonder at. I am unwilling to mix 
my fortune with him that is going down the wind. Sent all 
my books to my Lord’s, in order to send them to my house 
that I now dwell in. 

7th. My Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland. 

8th. Drinking a glass of wine late and discoursing with 
Sir W. Pen. I find him to be a very sociable man, and an 
able man, and very cunning. 

9th. (Sunday.) Major Hart come to see me in the garden, 
who tells me that we are all like to be speedily disbanded,’ 
and then I lose the benefit of a muster. 

10th. News of the Duke’s intention to go to-morrow to 
the fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. 

11th. Landing at the Bear at the Bridge foot, we saw 
Southwark fair, I having not at all seen Bartholomew fair. 
I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, which 
she did very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. 
The Duke of York did go to-day by break of day to the 
Downs. The Duke of Gloucester ill. The House of Par- 
liament was to adjourn to-day. 

12th. Looking after my workmen, whose laziness do much 
trouble me. : 

13th. My wife went to the burial of a child of my cousin 
Scott’s; and it is observable that within this month my 
aunt Wright was brought to bed of two girls, my cousin 
Stradwick of a girl and boy, and my cousin Scott of a 


*See 30th June, 1660, and 29th Aug. 1660. 

Only brother to Louis XIV.; he became Duke of Orleans on the 
death of his uncle. 

® The train-bands. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 107 


boy, and all died. Mr. Hawley did give me a little black 
rattoon,’ painted and gilt. This day the Duke of Glouces- 
ter died of the smallpox, by the great negligence of the 
doctors. 

14th. My mother very ill, at which my heart is very 
sick. 

15th. To Westminster, where I met with Dr. Castles, 
who chid me for some error in our Privy Seal business; 
among the rest, for letting the fees of the six judges pass 
unpaid, which I know not what to say to till I speak to Mr. 
Moore. I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to 
pay the money myself. Called at my father’s going home, 
and bespoke mourning for myself, for the death of the Duke 
of Gloucester. 

16th. (Lord’s day.) My Lord of Oxford,’ I am told, is 
also dead of the smallpox; in whom his family dies, after 
600 years having that honour in their family and name. 
To the Park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in 
the Pell-mell, and in making a river through the Park, 
which I had never seen before since it was begun. Thence 
to White Hall Garden, where I saw the King in purple® 
mourning for his brother. A gentleman in the Poultry had 
a great and dirty fall over a water-pipe that lay along the 
channel. 

17th. I did give my wife 15l. to go to buy mourning 
things for her, which she did. 

18th. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon the 
news of the death of his brother yesterday, came hither by 
post last night. To the Mitre tavern, in Wood Street, (a 
house of the greatest note in London,) where I met W. 
Symons and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, 
Luellin, Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White,* for- 


-1Probably an Indian rattan cane. 

*This was untrue. Aubrey de Vere, then twentieth Earl of Oxford, 
survived till 1702-3, when the title became extinct. 

5“ The Queen-mother of France,” says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, 
“died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King 
Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince’s mourning.” 
Query: When was the custom discontinued ? 

* According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Crom- 
well’s waiting-woman, in Oliver’s lifetime, and they lived together fifty 
years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John 


108 DIARY OF [23d Sept. 


merly chaplain to the Lady Protectress* (and still so, and 
one they say that is likely to get my Lady Frances for his 
wife.) Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I 
never knew before, which was very good. 

20th. To Major Hart’s lodgings in Cannon Street, who 
used me very kindly with wine and good discourse, particu- 
larly upon the ill method which Colonel Birch and the Com- 
mittee use in defending of the army and the navy; pro- 
mising the Parliament to save them a great deal of money, 
when we judge that it will cost the King more than if they 
had nothing to do with it, by reason of their delays and 
scrupulous inquiries into the account of both. 

21st. Upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke of 
Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by 
water to Westminster, to be buried to-night. 

22d. I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear 
over a pair of silk ones for mourning; and I met with The. 
Turner and Joyce, buying of things to go into mourning, 
too, for the Duke, which is now the mode of all the ladies 
in town. This day, Mr. Edward Pickering is come from my 
Lord, and says that he left him well in Holland, and that he 
will be here within three or four days. 

23d. (Lord’s day.) Come one from my father’s, with a 
black cloth coat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and 
down in. To the Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. 
Baxter or Mr. Rowe preach their farewell sermon, and in 
Mr. Symons’s pew I heard Mr. Rowe. Before sermon I 
laughed at the reader, who in his prayer desires of God that 
He would imprint his words on the thumbs of our right 
hands, and on the right great toes of our rights feet. In 
the midst of the sermon, some plaster fell from the top of 
the Abbey, that made me and all the rest in our pew afraid, 
and I wished myself out. This afternoon, the King having 
news of the Princess being come to Margate, he and the 
Duke of York went down thither in barges to her. To 


Russell, of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years, 
dying 1721-2. The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to 
Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have been 
soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver compelled 
him to marry.—Noble’s Life of Cromwell, vol. ii. p. 151, 152. 


1Oliver Cromwell’s wife. 


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the Hope Tavern, and sent for Mr. Chaplin, who with Nicho- 
las Osborne and one Daniel come to us, and we drank off 
two or three quarts of wine, which was very good; the 
drawing of our wine causing a great quarrel in the house 
between the two drawers which should draw us the best, 
which caused a great deal of noise and falling out till the 
master parted them, and came up to us, and did give a long 
account of the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, to 
draw what wine they will to please his customers; and [we | 
eat above 200 walnuts.* Nicholas Osborne did give me a 
barrel of samphire, and showed me the keys of Mardyke® 
Fort, which he that was commander of the fort sent him as 
a token when the fort was demolished, and I will get them 
of him if I can. 

24th. I arose from table, and went to the Temple church, 
where I had appointed Sir W. Batten to meet him; and 
there, at Sir Heneage Finch, Solicitor General’s chambers, 
before him and Sir W. Wilde, Recorder of London, (whom 
we sent for from his chamber) we were sworn justices of 
peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with 
which honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I 
am wholly ignorant in the duties of a justice of peace. I 
went with Monsieur L’Impertinent [Mr. Butler] to a danc- 
ing meeting in Broad Street, at the house that was formerly 
the glass-house, Luke Channell master of the school, where 
I saw good dancing. 

25th. I did send for a cup of tee,® (a China drink) of 
which I never had drank before, and went away (the King 
and the Princess coming up the river* this afternoon as we 


Which made him very ill next day, though the particulars are best 
omitted. 


2A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that 
town was sold to Louis XIV. 


3“ Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called tee, sold in almost 
every street in 1659.”"—Rugge’s Diurnal. “Tea was then so scarce in 
England, that the infusion of it in water was taxed by the gallon, in 
common with chocolate and sherbet. Two pounds and two ounces 
were in the same year formally presented to the King by the East India 
Company, as a most valuable oblation.”—Quarterly Review, vol. viii. 
p. 141. 


*“The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, 
attended by a noble retinue of about 100 persons, gentry, and servants, 


110 DIARY OF [3d Oct. 


were at our pay). My Lord told me how the ship that 
brought the Princess and him (the Tredagh) did knock six 
times upon the Kentish Knock, which put them in great 
fear for the ship; but got off well. He told me also how 
the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir 
Richard Stayner. 

26th. To the church, to consult about our gallery. 

28th. All the afternoon among my workmen, and did 
give them drink, and very merry with them, it being my 
luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all oc- 
casions. 

29th. This day, or yesterday, I hear, Prince Rupert’ is 
come to Court; but welcome to nobody. 

October Ist. Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado* of the 
Charles’s, came to see me. 

2d. At Will’s I met with Mr. Spicer, and with him to the 
Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a thin 
congregation. 

3d. To my Lord’s, who sent a great iron chest to White 
Hall; and I saw it carried into the King’s closet, where I 
saw most incomparable pictures. Among the rest a book 
open upon a desk, which I durst have sworn was a real 
book. Back again to my Lord, and dined all alone with 
him, who did treat me with a great deal of respect; and 
after dinner did discourse an hour with me, and advise about 
some way to get himself some money to make up for his 
great expenses, saying that he believed that he might have 
any thing that he would ask of the King. This day I heard 
the Duke speak of a great design that he and my Lord of 
Pembroke have, and a great many others, of sending a ven- 
ture to some parts of Africa to dig for gold ore there. They 
intend to admit as many as will venture their money, and 
so make themselves a company. 250I. is the lowest share 
for every man. But I do not find that my Lord do much 
like it. 


and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took that opportunity 
to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so excellent a Princess as 
without question she is.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 

1Son of Frederic, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, afterwards styled 
King of Bohemia, by Elizabeth, only sister to Charles I. Ob. 1682, 

2 That is a discharged officer from the Royal Charles, 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 111 


4th. I and Lieutenant Lambert’ to Westminster Abbey, 
where we saw Dr. Frewen* translated to the Archbishoprick4 
of York. Here I saw the Bishops of Winchester,’ Bangor,* 
Rochester,” Bath and Wells,” and Salisbury,’ all in their 
habits, in King Henry Seventh’s chapel. But, Lord! at 
their going out, how people did most of them look upon 
them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of love or 
respect. 

5th. Office day; dined at home to see my painters now 
at work upon my house. 

6th. Colonel Slingsby* and I at the office, getting a catch’ 
ready for the Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to- 
day, who is now going home again. I was to give my Lord 
an account of the stations and victuals of the fleet, in order 
to the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to bring 
over the Queen. 

7th. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall on foot, calling at my 
father’s to change my long black cloak for a short one (long 
cloaks being now quite out); but he being gone to church, 
I could not get one. I heard Dr. Spurstow’’ preach before 
the King a poor dry sermon; but a very good anthem of 
Captain Cooke’s afterwards. To my Lord’s, and dined with 
him; he all dinner-time talking French to me, and telling 
me the story how the Duke of York hath got my Lord 
Chancellor’s daughter with child, and that she do lay it to 
him, and that for certain he did promise her marriage, and 
had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had got 
the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would 
have him to marry her, but that he will not.’* So that the 


+See June 7th, 1661, and Sept. 14th, 1665. 

?Dr. Accepted Frewen, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. 

5’ Brian Duppa, translated from Salisbury. 

* William Roberts. 

5 John Warner. Ob. 1666, aged 86. 

* William Pierce, translated from Peterborough, 1632. 

*Humphrey Henchman, afterwards Bishop of London, 

® Afterwards Sir Robert Slingsby. 

® Or ketch, a small swift sailing vessel. 

*” William Spurstow, D.D., Vicar of Hackney and Master of Catharine 
Hall, Cambridge, both which pieces of preferment he lost for noncon- 
formity, 1662. 

4% See May 6, 1661. 


112 DIARY OF [10th Oct. 


thing is very bad for the Duke and them all; but my Lord 
do make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new 
thing for the Duke to do abroad. After dinner to the Ab- 
bey, where I heard them read the church service, but very 
ridiculously. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb’s,’ one of 
the prebendaries, in his habit, come afterwards, and so all 
ended. 

8th. At my father’s about gilded leather for my dining- 
room. 

9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to 
Deptford, to pay off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to 
do business, and afterwards together to White Hall, where 
I went to my Lord, and saw in his chamber his picture, 
very well done; and am with child till I get it copied out, 
which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. Our gentle- 
men and Mr. Prin [Prynne] dined together. I found Mr. 
Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in his discourse not 
very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passed 
among us to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a 
black man, did scald his beard with mince-pie, and it came 
up again all white in that place, and continued to his dying 
day. 

10th. At night comes Mr. Moore, and tells me how Sir 
Hards. Waller? (who only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke,’ 
Peters,* Harrison, &c., were this day arraigned at the bar 
of the Sessions House, there being upon the bench the Lord 
Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c.; such a 
bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England! 
They all seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned 
without question. In Sir Orlando Bridgman’s charge,’ he 
did wholly rip up the unjustness of the war against the 
King from the beginning, and so it much reflects upon all 


1 James Lamb, in 1662 made Rector of St. Andrews, Holborn. 

* Sir Hardress Waller, Knight, one of Charles the First’s judges. His 
sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. 

* Cooke was Solicitor to the people of England. 

* Hugh Peters, the fanatical preacher. 

° Eldest son of John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, became, after 
the Restoration, successively, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Chief 
Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and 


ihe created a baronet. He is ancestor of the present Earl of Brad- 
ord, 


ee 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 113 


the Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, 
yet they must hereby confess that the King do look upon 
them as traitors. ‘To-morrow they are to plead what they 
have to say. 

llth. To walk in St. James’s Park, where we observed 
the several engines at work to draw up water, with which 
sight I was very much pleased. Above all the rest I liked 
that which Mr. Greatorex’ brought, which do carry up 
the water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we 
met with Mr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to 
the Cockpit to see ** The Moor of Venice,” which was well 
done. Burt acted the Moor; by the same token, a very 
pretty lady that sat by me called out, to see Desdemona 
smothered. With Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars,* where 
we drank. 

12th. My Lady Sandwich come to town, and showed me 
most extraordinary love and kindness. 

13th. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- 
General Harrison* hanged, drawn, and quartered; which 
was done there, he looked as cheerful as any man could 
do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his 
head and heart shown to the people, at which there was 
great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was 
sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge 
them that now had judged him; and that his wife do expect 
his coming again. Thus it was my chance to see the King 
beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed in 
revenge for the King at Charing Cross. Setting up shelves 
in my study. 

14th. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall chapel, where one 
Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it an 
anthem, ill-sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first 
did see the Princess Royal since she came into England. 


1A mathematical instrument maker. 

? Nicholas Burt ranked in the list of good actors after the Restoration, 
though he resigned the part of Othello to Hart.—Davies’s Dramatic 
Miscellanies. 

°In Fleet Street. 

*Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Line, ap- 
pointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor toWhite Hall, 
in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the execution of the 
King. 

VOL. I, I 


114 DIARY OF [20th Oct, 


Here I also observed, how the Duke of York and Mrs. 
Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through the 
hangings that part the King’s closet and the closet where 
the ladies sit. 

15th. This morning Mr. Carew* was hanged and quartered 
at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great favour, are 
not to be hanged up. 

16th. Being come home, Will [Hewer] told me that my 
Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night; so I returned 
by water, and, coming there, it was only to inquire how the 
ships were provided with victuals that are to go with him to 
fetch over the Queen, which I gave him a good account of. 
He seemed to be in a melancholy humor, which, I was told 
by W. Howe, was for that he had lately lost a great deal of 
money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict him- 
self to now-a-days. 

18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel 
Hacker® and Axtell® should die, I went to Newgate, but 
found they were reprieved till to-morrow. The. Turner 
sent for a pair of doves that my wife had promised her; 
and because she did not send them in the best cage, she 
sent them back again with a scornful letter, with which 
I was angry, but yet pretty well pleased that she was 
crossed. 

19th. This morning my dining-room was finished with 
green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very hand- 
some. This morning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and 
quartered, as the rest are. ‘This night I sat up late to 
make up my accounts ready against to-morrow for my 
Lord. 

20th. I dined with my Lord and Lady; he was very 
merry, and did talk very high how he would have a French 
cook, and a master of his horse, and his lady and child to 
wear black patches; which methought was strange; but 
he is become a perfect courtier; and, among other things, 
my Lady saying that she could get a good merchant for 
her daughter Jem., he answered, that he would rather see 


1 John Carew, one of the regicides. 

?Colonel Francis Hacker commanded the guards at the King’s ex- 
ecution. 

* Axtell had guarded the High Court of Justice, 


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her with a pedlar’s pack at her back, so she married a 
gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This after- 
noon, going through London, and calling at Crowe’s,’ the 
upholsterer’s, in Saint Bartholomew’s, I saw the limbs of 
some of our new traytors set upon Aldersgate, which was 
a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this and the last 
have been, there being ten hanged, drawn and quartered. 

21st. (Lord’s day.) George Vines carried me up to the 
top of his turret, where there is Cooke’s head set up for a 
traytor, and Harrison’s set up on the other side of West- 
minster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as also a 
very fair prospect about London. 

22d. All preparing for my Lord’s going to see to fetch 
the Queen to-morrow. At night my Lord come home, 
with whom I staid long, and talked of many things. I got 
leave to have his picture, that was done by Lilly, copied.* 
He told me there hath been a meeting before the King 
and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian and Pres- 
byterian Divines; but what had passed he could not 
tell me. 

23d. One of Mr. Shepley’s pistols, charged with bullets, 
flew off, and it pleased God that the mouth of the gun 
being downwards, it did us no hurt; but I think I never 
was in more danger in my life. About eight o’clock my 
Lord went; and going through the garden, Mr. William 
Montagu told him of an estate of land lately come into the 
King’s hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To 
which end my Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord 
Chancellor to do it for him, which (after leave taken of my 
Lord at White Hall bridge) I did carry to Warwick House 
to him; and had a fair promise of him, that he would do it 
this day for my Lord. In my way thither I met the Lord 
Chancellor and all the Judges riding on horseback and 
going to Westminster Hall, it being the first day of the 
term. Carried my Lord’s picture to Mr. de Cretz to be 
copied. 

24th. Mr. Moore tells me, among other things, that the 


1 He is called “ Alderman,” post, Oct. 15, 1668. 

Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza. This 
portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys Cockerell’s sale, 
in 1848, and is now at Audley End, 

12 


116 DIARY OF [26th Oct. 


Duke of York is now sorry for his amour with my Lord 
Chancellor’s daughter, who is now brought to bed of a 
boy... To Mr. Lilly’s,’ where not finding Mr. Spong, I went 
to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, and where I bought of 
him a drawing-pen; and he did show me the manner of the 
lamp-glasses, which carry the light a great way, good to 
read in bed by, and I intend to have one of them; and we 
looked at his wooden jack in his chimney, that goes with the 
stnoake, which is indeed very pretty. So to Mr. Lilly’s 
with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a clubb 
to-night among his friends. Among the rest, Esquire Ash- 
mole,* who I found was a very ingenious gentleman. With 
him we two sang afterwards in Mr. Lilly’s study. That 
done, we all parted; and I home by coach, taking Mr. 
Rooker* with me, who did tell me a great many foolieries, 
which may be done by nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly 
for writing to please his friends and to keep in with the 
times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour), and not 
according to the rules of art, by which he could not well 
erre, as he had done. 

25th. All day at home, doing something in order to the 
fitting of my house. 

26th. By Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the 
Duke de Soissons’ go from his audience with a very great 
deal of state: his own coach all red velvet covered with gold 
lace, and drawn by six barbes, and attended by twenty 
pages, very rich in clothes. ‘To Westminster Hall, and 
bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queen, 
which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, 
that we did nothing but laugh at it: among other things, 


1 Born the 22nd. 


? William Lily, the astrologer and almanac-maker. He lived in the 
Strand. 


3 Elias Ashmole, the antiquary. 


*Pepys surely wrote Rooker by mistake, for James Booker, of Man- 
chester, the astrologer, then living, and mentioned in Hudibras, in con- 
nexion with Lily, canto iii. 1093. 


° Eugene Maurice of Savoy, youngest son of Thomas of Savoy, by 
Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, whose titie he inherited. He 
married Olympia Mancini, one of the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, more 
than suspected of poisoning practices (like the Brinvilliers). His 
youngest son was the celebrated General, Prince Eugene of Savoy. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 117 


it is dedicated to that paragon of virtue and beauty, the 
Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if the Duke of York 
do now own the marriage between him and the Chancellor’s 
daughter. 

27th. I went by chance to my new Lord Mayor’s house, 
(Sir Richard Browne) by Goldsmiths’ Hall, which is now 
fitting, and indeed is a very pretty house. Coming back I 
called at Paul’s Churchyard, and bought Alstead’s Ency- 
clopedia, which cost me 38s. I dined with my Lady, my 
young Lord [| Hinchingbroke], and Mr. Sidney [ Montagu], 
who was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor’s 
show to-morrow. To Westminster Abbey, where, with 
much difficulty, going round the cloysters, I got in; this 
day being a great day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, 
which was done after sermon; but I could not get into 
Henry the Seventh’s chappel. After dinner to White 
Hall chappel; my Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up 
to the King’s closet (who is now gone to meet the Queen). 
So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did know my Lady, 
he did take us into the King’s closet, and there we did stay 
all service-time, which I did think a great honour. 

29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor’s day’ (Sir 
Richard Browne), and neglecting my office, I went to the 
Wardrobe, where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the 
children; and after drinking of some strange and incom- 
parable good clarett of Mr. Remball’s,’ he* and Mr. Town- 
send* did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. 
Nevill’s, a draper in Paul’s churchyard; and my Lady, and 
my Lady Pickering* and I to one Mr. Isaacson’s, a linen- 
draper at the Key in Cheapside; where there was a com- 
pany of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and 
had a very good place to see the pagents, which were 
many, and I believe good for such kind of things, but in 
themselves but poor and absurd. The show being done, 
we got to Paul’s with much ado, and I went on foot with 


1 Now, by alteration of the style, November 9th. 

2Or, Rumbell. See Dec. 8th, 1661. 

8 Officers of the Wardrobe. 

* Elizabeth Montagu, sister to the Earl of Sandwich, who had married 
Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., of Nova Scotia, and of Tichmersh, co, 
Northampton. 


118 DIARY OF [1st Nov. 


my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was a poor 
one in Blachfryars, where she never invited me to go in 
at all, which methought was very strange. Lady Davis is 
now come to our next lodgings, and has locked up the leads’ 
door from me, which puts me in great disquiet. 

30th. I went to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a 
very fine play called “The Tamer Tamed; very well 
acted. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether he be gone for 
the Queen from the Downes or no; but I believe he is, and 
that he is now upon coming back again. We did read over 
the King’s declaration in matters of religion, which is come 
out to-day, which is very well penned. 

31st. Much troubled about my walk on the leades, but 
we are all unwilling to anger my Lady Davis.” Resolving 
to ride to Sir W. Batten’s,’ I sat up late, and was fain to 
cut an old pair of boots to make leathers for those I was to 
wear. 

November 1st. This morning, Sir W. Pen and I were 
mounted early, and had very merry discourse all the way, 
he being very good company. We come to Sir W. Bat- 
ten’s, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very 
welcome. Among other things, he showed me my Lady’s 
closet, wherein was great store of rarities; as also a chair, 
which he calls King Harry’s chaire, where he that sits 
down is catched with two irons, that come round about 
him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or 
three more country gentlemen; among the rest, Mr. 
Christmas, my old school-fellow, with whom I had much 
talk. He did remember that I was a great Roundhead 
when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he would 
have remembered the words that I said the day the King was 
beheaded (that, were I to preach upon him, my text should 
be—‘* The memory of the wicked shall rot’); but I found 
afterwards that he did go away from school before that time. 
He did make-us good sport in imitating Mr. Case,* Ash, and 


1 “The Woman’s Prize, or Tamer Tamed,” a comedy, by John 
Fletcher. 

* Wife of Mr. Davis, belonging to the Navy Office. The appellation 
of my Lady is used in the same sense as the French word Madame. 

8 At Walthamstow. 

“Thomas Case, one of the Assembly of Divines, and some time rector 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 119 


Nye, the ministers; but a deadly drinker he is, and grown 
very fat. 

2d. I went and saw some silver crosses put upon my 
Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. the 
silver; the book comes in all to 1l. 3s. 6d. To White 
Hall, where I saw the boats coming very thick to Lambeth, 
and all the stairs to be full of people. I was told the 
Queen was a-coming,’ so I got a sculler for sixpence to 
carry me thither and back again, but I could not get to see 
the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord’s, where he was 
come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling 
me stories of the country mayors, how they entertained 
the King all the way as he come along; and how the 
country gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed 
by the King, not taking his hand to kiss, as they should do. 
I took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at 
White Hall, and carried Mr. Childe*® as far as the Strand, 
and myself got as far as Ludgate by all the bonfires, but 
with a great deal of trouble; and there the coachman de- 
sired that I would release him, for he durst not go further 
for the fires. In Paul’s Church-yard I called at Kirton’s,’ 
and there they had got a masse book for me, which I bought, 
and cost me twelve shillings; and, when I come home, sat 
up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to 
hear that she was long ago acquainted with it. I observed 
this night very few bonfires in the City, not above three 
in all London, for the Queen’s coming; whereby I guess 
that (as I believed before) her coming do please but very 
few. 

3d. Saturday. In the afternoon to White Hall, where 
my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queen’s hand. 


of St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields. Ob. 1682, aged 84. Simeon Ash, one of 
the leading Presbyterian ministers. Philip Nye, who had been minister 
of Kimbolton, and rector of Acton, Middlesex, retired after his non- 
conformity, and died in 1672. 

1 Noy. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into 
London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her 
coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and 
the Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all 
safely arrived at Whitehall.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


2 Afterwards Sir Joshua Childe. *A bookseller. See Dec. 23, 1661. 


120 DIARY OF [7th Nov. 


4th. (Lord’s day.) In the morn to our own church,? 
where Mr. Mills did begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, 
by saying ‘‘ Glory be to the Father,” &c., after he had read 
the two psalms; but the people had been so little used to it, 
that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration 
of the King’s do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, 
and a pretence to read the Common Prayer, which they would 
not do before because of their former preaching against it. 
After dinner to Westminster. In our way we called at the 
Bell, to see the seven Flanders mares that my Lord has 
bought lately. Then I went to my Lord’s, and, having 
spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, where the first time 
that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral. -My wife seemed 
very pretty to-day, it being the first time I had given her 
leave to weare a black patch. 

5th. At the office at night, to make up an account of 
what the debts of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that 
should have been paid off, is increased since the adjournment 
of the Parliament, they being to sit again to-morrow. This 
5th of November is observed exceeding well in the City: 
and at night great bonfires and fireworks. 

6th. Mr. Chetwind told me that he did fear that this 
late business of the Duke of York’s would prove fatal to my 
Lord Chancellor. To our office, where we met all, for the 
sale of two ships by an inch of candle, (the first time 
that ever I saw any of this kind) where I observed how they 
do invite one another, and at last how they all do ery,” and 
we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The ships 
were the Indian, sold for 13001., and the Half-moone, sold 
for 8301. Fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that 
were hanged for the King’s death, and found good satis- 
faction in reading thereof. 

“th. Went by water to my Lord, where I dined with him, 
and he in a very merry humour (present Mrs. Borkett and 
Childe) at dinner; he, in discourse of the great opinion of 
the virtue—gratitude, (which he did account the greatest 
thing in the world to him, and had, therefore, in his mind 
been often troubled in the late times how to answer his grati- 
tude to the King, who raised his father) did say it was that 


1St. Olave’s Hart Street. 74.¢., bid. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 121 


did bring him to his obedience to the King; and did also 
bless himself with his good fortune, in comparison to what 
it was when I was with him in the Sound, when he durst 
not own his correspondence with the King; which is a thing 
that I never did hear of to this day before; and I do from 
this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most secret 
men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before. 
After dinner he bid all go out of the room, and did tell me 
how the King had promised him 40001. per annum for ever, 
and had already given him a bill under his hand (which he 
showed me) for 40001. that Mr. Fox’ is to pay him. My 
Lord did advise with me how to get this received, and to put 
out 30001. into safe hands at use, and the other he will make 
use of for his present occasion. This he did advise with me 
about with great secresy. After all this, he called for the 
fiddles and books, and we two and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, 
did sing and play some psalmes of Will Laws’s* and some 
songs; and so I went away. To Mr. Fox, who did use me 
very civilly, but I did not see his lady, whom I had so long 
known when she was a maid, Mrs. Whittle.* Nothwith- 
standing this was the first day of the King’s proclamation 
against hackney-coaches* coming into streets to stand to be 
hired, yet I got one to carry me home. 

8th. On board the yacht,’ which indeed is one of the 
finest things that ever I saw, for neatness and room, in so 
small a vessel. Home at two in the morning. My wife up, 
who showed me her head, which was very well dressed. 

9th. At the Hope Tavern, dinner given us by Mr. Ady 
and Mr. Wire, the King’s fishmonger. Good sport with 
Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, and there was nothing 


1 Afterwards Sir Stephen Fox. See note to Nov. 20, 1660. 


? Brother to Henry Lawes, the celebrated composer, and himself a 
chamber musician to Charles I., in whose service he took up arms, and 
was killed at the siege of Chester, 1645. The King regretted his loss 
severely, and used to call him the father of music. 


* Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle, of Lancashire, wife of 
Stephen Fox, who was knighted in 1665. 

*“Tn April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned 
for some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to 
400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2000.”—Rugge’s 
Diurnal. 


5See ante, Aug. 15th, and post, Jan, 13th, 1660-61. 


122 DIARY OF [12th Nov. 


else till we sent for a neat’s tongue. My Lord had an organ 
set up to-day in his dining-room, an ugly one, in the form 
of Bridewell. To wait at Sir Harry Wright’s, where my 
Lord was busy at cards. 

10th. The Comptroller* and I to the coffee-house, where 
he showed me the state of his case; how the King did 
owe him above 60001. But I do not see great likelihood 
for them to be paid, since they begin already in Parliament 
to dispute the paying off the just sea-debts, which were 
already promised to be paid, and will be the undoing of 
thousands if they be not paid. I bought Montelion,’ which 
this year do not prove so good as the last was; so after 
reading it I burned it; reading of that and the comedy of 
the Rump,’ also very silly, I went to bed. Going home, I 
bought a goose. 

11th. (Lord’s day.) To church in our new gallery, the 
first time it was used. There being no woman this day, we 
sat in the foremost pew, and behind our servants, and I hope 
it will not always be so, it not being handsome for our ser- 
vants to sit so equal to us. I went to Mr. Fox at White 
Hall, when I first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth 
Whittle, whom I had formerly a great opinion of, and did 
make an anagram or two upon her name when I was a boy. 
She proves a very fine lady, and mother to fine children. I 
agreed with Mr. Fox about taking the 40001. of him that the 
King had given my Lord. 

12th. To the Comptroller’s house in Lime Street, a fine 
house, where I never was before. Agreed with Jack Spicer 
to help me to tell money this afternoon. My father and I 
discoursed seriously about my sister’s coming to live with 
me, and yet I am much afraid of her ill nature. I told her 
plainly my mind was to have her come not as a sister but as 


1Sir Robert Slingsby, whose father, Sir Guildford Slingsby, had held 
the same office. 


2“ Montelion, the Prophetical Almanac for the year 1660, 8vo. with 
frontispiece, by John Phillips.” The Montelions for 1661 and 1662 
were written by Thomas Flatman. It would appear that Pepys bought 
the Montelion for 1661, as there had not been one for 1659.—See Watt’s 
Bibliotheca. 


°“ The Rump, or the Mirror of the late Times,” a comedy, by John 
Tatham. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 123 


a servant,’ which she promised me that she would, and with 
many thanks did weep for joy. 

13th. By water to the Wardrobe. A great deal of room 
in the house, but very ugly, till my Lord had bestowed great 
cost upon it. Found my wife making of pies and tarts to 
try her oven with, but not knowing the nature of it, did heat 
it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows 
how to do better another time. 

14th. Into Cheapside to Mr. Beachamp’s, the gold- 
smith, to look out a piece of plate to give Mr. Fox from my 
Lord, for his favour about the 4000I1., and did choose a gilt 
tankard. 

15th. My Lord did this day show me the King’s picture 
which was done in Flanders, that the King did promise my 
Lord before he ever saw him, and that we did expect to have 
had at sea before the King come to us; but it come but to- 
day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most like him 
that ever I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming 
on table, my wife came to my Lord’s, and I got her carried 
in to my Lady, who was just now hiring of a French maid 
that was with her, and [they] could not understand one 
another till my wife come to interpret. Here I did leave 
my wife to dine with my Lord, the first time he did ever 
take notice of her as my wife, and did seem to have a just 
esteem for her. To Mr. Fox, and by two porters carried away 
the other 10001. I had it of his kinsman, and did give him 41., 
and other servants something; but whereas I did intend to 
have given Mr. Fox himself a piece of plate of 501., I was 
demanded 501., the fee of the office, at 6d. a pound, at which 
I was surprised, but I did leave it there till I speak with 
my Lord. My wife I found much satisfied with my Lord’s 
discourse and respect to her. To Sir W. Batten’s to dinner, 
he having a couple of servants married to-day; and so there 
was a great number of merchants, and others of good quality, 
on purpose after dinner to make an offering, which, when 
dinner was done, we did, and I did give ten shillings and no 
more, though I believe most of the rest did give more, and 
did believe that I did so too. 

19th. I went with the Treasurer*® in his coach to White 


1See post, Jan. 2, 1660-61. ? Sir George Carteret. 
P g 


124 DIARY OF [21st Nov, 


Hall, and in our way, in discourse, do find him a very 
good-natured man; and, talking of those men who now 
stand condemned for murdering the King, he says that 
he believes that if the law would give leave, the King is 
a man of so great compassion that he would wholly acquit 
them. 

20th. Mr. Shepley and I to the new play-house’ near 
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon’s tennis- 
court) where the play of “ Beggar’s Bush”? was newly 
begun; and so we went in, and saw it well acted: and here 
I saw the first time one Moone,* who is said to be the best 
actor in the world, lately come over with the King, and 
indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in 
England. This morning I found my Lord in bed late, he 
having been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the 
Cockpit [at White Hall] all night, where General Monk 
treated them; and after supper a play,* where the King did 
put a great affront upon Singleton’s musique,’ he bidding 
them stop, and made the French musique play, which, my 
Lord says, do much outdo all ours. While my Lord was 
rising, I went to Mr. Fox’s, and there did leave the gilt 
tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then to the counting-house to 
him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with him 
on Thursday next, and so to see the Queene and Prin- 
cesse. 

Qist. This morning my cozin, Thos. Pepys, the turner, 
sent me a cupp of lignum vite for a token. My wife and 
I went to Pater-Noster Rowe, and there we bought some 
greene-watered Moyre, for a morning wastecoate. And 


1 Killigrew’s, or the King’s House, opened for the first time, 8th 
Nov. 1660. 


The “Beggar’s Bush,” a comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 


’Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a major’s 
commission in the King’s army. See postea, April 16, 1667. 


*Sir John Denham wrote the Prologue, of which there is a contem- 
porary copy in the British Museum. 


° John Singleton, appointed, 1660, one of the musicians of the sack- 
buts in place of William Lanier. From the sackbut he advanced to 
the violin, and lastly to the flute. He is mentioned by Dryden in 
Mac Flecknoe, and by Shadwell in Bury Fair. He died 1686, and 
was buried (7th April) in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Covent 
Garden. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 125 


after that we went to Mr. Cade’s to choose some pictures 
for our house. I to Pope’s Head" [Alley], and bought me 
an aggate-hafted knife, which cost me 5s. At night to my 
viallin (the first time that I have played on it since I come 
to this house) in my dining-roome, and afterwards to my 
lute there, and I took much pleasure to have the neighbours 
come forth into the yard to hear me. 

22d. This morning come the carpenters to make me a 
door at the other side of my house, going into the entry. 
My wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she 
bought her a white whisk,* and put it on, and I a pair of 
gloves. To Mr. Fox’s, where we found Mrs. Fox within, 
and an Alderman of London paying 10001. or 1400/. in gold 
upon the table for the King. Mr. Fox come in presently, 
and did receive us with a great deal of respect; and then 
did take my wife and I to the Queen’s presence-chamber, 
where he got my wife placed behind the Queen’s chaire, and 
the two Princesses come to dinner. The Queen a very little, 
plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any 
respect nor garbe than any ordinary woman. The Princess 
of Orange I had often seen before. The Princess Henrietta 
is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her 
dressing of herself with her haire frized short up to her 
eares did make her seem so much the less to me. But my 
wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, 
and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she. 
Dinner being done, we went to Mr. Fox’s again, where 
many gentlemen dined with us, and most princely dinner— 
all provided for me and my friends, but I bringing none but 
myself and wife, he did call the company to help to eate up 
so much good victuals. At the end of the dinner, my Lord 
Sandwich’s health, in the gilt tankard that I did give to Mrs. 
Fox the other day. To White Hall at about nine at night, 
and there, with Laud, the page that went with me, we could 
not get out of Henry the Eighth’s gallery into the further 
part of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walking 
with my Lord Ormond; and we had a key of Sir S. Mor- 
land’s, but all would not do; till at last, by knocking, Mr. 


*Pope’s Head Alley was at this time famous for its cutlers. See 
20th June, 1662. 
* A sort of tippet formerly worn by women. 


126 DIARY OF [26th Nov. 


Harrison, the door-keeper, did open us the door, and, after 
some talk with my Lord about getting a Catch* to carry my 
Lord St. Alban’s’* goods to France, I parted and went home 
on foot. 

24th. Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish Wine- 
House® and there I did give them two quarts of Worm- 
wood wine.* To my Lord’s, where I dined with my Lady, 
there being Mr. Childe and Mrs. Borkett, who are never 
absent at dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From 
thence I to Mr. de Cretz, and did take away my Lord’s 
picture, which is now finished for me, and I paid 3l. 10s. for 
it and the frame. 

25th. (Lord’s day.) In the forenoon I alone to our church, 
and after dinner I went and ranged about to many churches, 
among the rest to the Temple, where I heard Dr. Wilkins’ a 
little, (late Master of Trinity, in Cambridge.) I had a 
letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to 
carry the Queen’s things over to France, she being to go 
within five or six days. 

26th. My father come and dined with me, who seems to 
take much pleasure to have a son that is neat in his house. 
I heard that my Lady Batten® had given my wife a visit, 


1See ante, 6th Sept. 


? Henry Jermyn, created Lord Jermyn 1643, advanced to the Earl- 
dom of St. Albans 1660, K.G. Ob. 1683, s. p. He was supposed to 
be married to the Queen Dowager. 


5 See ante, Aug. 9th, and note. 
4The Créme d’Absinthe is still a liqueur much liked in France. 


5 John Wilkins, D.D., brother-in-law of the Protector, made Bishop 
of Chester, 1668. Ob. 1672. 


® Rlizabeth Woodcock, evidently his second wife, as his daughter 
Martha is often mentioned, married Feb. 3, 1658-9, to Sir W. Batten; 
and secondly, in 1671, to a foreigner called, in the register of Battersea 
parish, Lord Leyenburgh. Lady Leighenberg was buried at Waltham- 
stow, Sept. 16, 1681.—Lysons’s Environs. Sir James Barkman Leyen- 
berg, the envoy from Sweden, was resident in England till 1682, or 
later. See Jan. 21, 1666-67. His name occurs in The Intelligencer, 
12th March, 1663-4, as delayed at Stockholm by a fever, though his 
despatches were ready. A hostile message appears to have passed be- 
tween him and Pepys, in November, 1670, but the duel was prevented. 
Perhaps they quarrelled about the money due from Sir W. Batten to 
Pepys, for which the widow was liable. See Mr. Wren’s letter, Novem- 
ber 9th, 1670, in Correspondence. 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 127 


- (the first that ever she made her) which pleased me ex- 
ceedingly. 

27th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone 
abroad to the Wardrobe, whither he do now go every other 
morning, and do seem to resolve to understand and look 
after the business himself. To Westminster Hall, and in 
King Street there being a great stop of coaches, there 
was a falling out between a drayman and my Lord Chester- 
field’s coachman, and one of his footmen killed. To my 
Lord’s again, where I found my wife, and she and I dined 
with him and my Lady, and great company of my Lord’s 
friends, and my Lord did show us great respect. To a 
play—* The Scornfull Lady,”'—and that being done, I went 
homewards. Mr. Moore told me how the House had this 
day voted the King to have all the Excise for ever. This 
day I do also hear that the Queen’s going to France is 
stopt, which do like me well, because then the King will be 
in town the next month, which is my month again at the 
Privy Seale. 

28th. To White Hall to my Lord’s, where Major Hart 
did pay me 231. 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my 
Lord’s troop, at the time of our disbanding.* Home, where 
I found that Mr. Creed had sent me the 11/. 5s. Od. that is 
due to me upon the remaynes of account for my sea busi- 
ness, and my bill of impress for 301. is also cleared, so that 
I am wholly clear as to the sea in all respects. 

30th. Sir G. Carteret did give us an account how Mr. 
Halland® do intend to preval with the Parliament to try his 
project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket,* 
and so promise interest to all men that will lend money upon 
them at eight per cent., for so long as they are unpaid; 
whereby he do think to take away the growing debt which 
do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present money to 
discharge the seamen. 


*A comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 
? As trained bands. 


John Holland was secretary to Sir G. Carteret, then Treasurer of 
the Navy, and was author of the Discourse on the Navy, mentioned in 
note, March 19, 1669. 


*The system of tickets afterwards gave great trouble, and caused 
much discontent. 


128 DIARY OF [4th Dee. 


December Ist. This morning observing some things to be 
laid up not as they should be by my girl, I took a broom 
and basted her till she cried extremely, which made me 
vexed; but, before I went out, I left her appeased. Went 
to my Lord St. Alban’s lodgings, and found him in bed, 
talking to a priest (he looked like one), that leaned along 
over the side of the bed; and there I desired to know his 
mind about making the Katch stay longer, which I got 
ready for him the other day. He seems to be a fine, civil 
gentleman. ‘There fell into our company old Mr. Flower 
and another gentleman, who did tell us how a Scotch 
knight was killed basely the other day at the Fleece’ in 
Covent Garden, where there had been a great many form- 
erly killed. 

2d. (Lord’s day.) To church, and Mr. Mills made a good 
sermon: so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a 
leg of mutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was 
angry at it, and eat none, but only dined upon the marrow- 
bone that we had beside. 

3d. I rose by candle, and spent my morning in fiddling 
till time to go to the office. Come in my cozen Snow by 
chance, and I had a very good capon to dinner. So to the 
office again till night, and so home, and then come Mr. 
Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever he was at my 
house), and after him Monsieur L’Impertinent [ Mr. Butler], 
who is to go to Ireland to-morrow, and so come to take his 
leave of me. They both found me under the barber’s hand; 
but I had a bottle of good sack in the house, and so made 
them very wellcome. 

4th. To the Duke of York, and he tooke us into his 
closet, and we did open to him our project of stopping the 
growing charge of the fleet, by paying them in hand one 
moyety, and the other four months hence. This he do like. 
This day the Parliament voted that the bodies of Oliver, 
Ireton, Bradshawe, and Thomas Pride, should be taken up out 


1“ The Fleece Tavern, in York Street, Covent Garden,” observe John 
Aubrey, in his Miscellanies, p. 31, “ was very unfortunate for homicides; 
there have been several killed; three in my time. It is now (1692) a 
private house.” In Rugge’s Diurnal is the following entry :—“Nov. 
1660. One Sir John Gooscall was unfortunately killed in the Fleece 
Tavern, Covent Garden, by one Balendin, a Scotchman, who was taken, 
and committed to the Gatehouse in this month.” 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 129 


of their graves in the Abbey, and drawn to the gallows, and 
there hanged and buried under it: which (methinks) do 
trouble me that a man of so great courage as he was should 
have that dishonour, though otherwise he might deserve it 
enough. 

5th. After dinner went to the New Theatre [ Killigrew’s ], 
and there I saw “ The Merry Wives of Windsor ” acted— 
the humours of the country gentleman and the French 
doctor very well done, but the rest but very poorly, and Sir 
J. Falstaffe' as bad as any. 

6th. To my Lord, who told me of his going out of town 
to-morrow to settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and 
did desire me to lay up a box of some rich jewels and 
things that there [are] in it, which I promised to do. 
After much free discourse with my Lord, who tells me his 
mind as to his enlarging his family, &c., and desiring me to 
look him out a Master of the Horse, and other servants, we 
parted. 

7th. To the Privy Seale, where I signed a deadly number 
of pardons, which do trouble me to get nothing by. I fell 
a-reading Fuller’s History of Abbys,’ and my wife in Great 
Cyrus’ till twelve at night, and so to bed. 

9th. (Lord’s day.) Being called up early by Sir W. 
Batten, rose and went to his house, and he told me the ill 
news that he had this morning from Woolwich—that the 
Assurance (formerly Captain Holland’s ship, and now Cap- 
tain Stoakes’s,* designed for Guiny, and manned and victual- 
led) was by a gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty 
men drowned. Sir Williams both went by barge thither to 
see how things are, and I am sent to the Duke of York to 
tell him. I went to the Duke, and first calling upon Mr. 
Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke’s bedside, who 
had sat. up late last night, and lay long this morning. ‘This 
being done, I went to chapel, and sat in Mr. Blagrave’s 
pew, and there did sing my part along with another be- 
.fore the King, and with much ease. I met with a letter 


1Played by Cartwright. 
?Which formed part of his Church History, book VI. 


8“ Artamine, ou, Le Grand Cyrus, par Magdelaine de Scudery,” the 
second of her works. 


‘John Stoakes, late captain of the Royal Henry. 
VOL. I. K 


130 DIARY OF [11th Dee. 


from my Lord, commanding me to go to Mr. Denham,’ to 
get a man to go to him to-morrow to Hinchingbroke, to 
contrive with him about some alterations in his house, 
which I did, and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady, 
and had infinite of talk of all kind of things, especially 
of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to 
be much pleased to talk of. With Mr. Kennard to my 
Lady, who is much pleased with him, and after a glass of 
sack there, we parted, having taken order for a horse or 
two for him and his servant to be gone to-morrow. Thence 
home, where I hear that the Comptroller? had some busi- 
ness with me, and he shewed me a design of his, by the 
King’s making an Order of Knights of the Sea, to give 
an encouragement for persons of honour to undertake the 
service of the Sea, and he had done it with great pains, and 
very ingeniously. 

10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, 
but he not being up, and it being a very fine, bright, 
moonshine morning, I went and walked all alone twenty 
turnes in Cornhill, from Gracechurch Street corner to the 
Stockes, and back again.* It is expected that the Duke 
will marry the Lord Chancellor’s daughter at last;* which 
is likely to be the ruine of Mr. Davis and my Lord Barkley, 
[of Stratton,] who have carried themselves so high against 
the Chancellor; Sir Charles Barkley® swearing that he 
and others had intrigued with her often, which all believe 
to be a lie. 

11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though 
the weather was very bad, and the wind high, yet my Lady 
Batten and her mayde, and we two, did go by our barge to 
Woolwich, (my Lady being very fearfull) where we found 
both Sir Williams, and much other company, expecting the 
weather to be better, that they might go about weighing 


1John Denham, created at the Restoration K.B., and Surveyor- 
General of the Works; better known as the author of Cooper’s Hill. 
Ob. 1668. 

2 Sir R. Slingsby. 

&“ Near the Conduit, on Cornhill, was a strong prison, made of 
timber, called a cage, with a pair of stocks set upon it, and this was for 
night-walkers.”—Maitland’s Hist. of London, vol. ii., p. 903. 

*He had married her on the 3d September previous. 

5 Afterwards created Earl of Falmouth. 


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up the Assurance, which lies there (poor ship, that I have 
been twice merry in, in Captain Holland’s time) under water, 
only the upper deck may be seen, and the masts. Captain 
Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some 
clothes and money of his, which he says he hath lost out 
of his cabin. I did the first office of a Justice of Peace 
to examine a seaman thereupon, but could find no reason 
to commit him. This last tide the Kingsale was also run 
aboard, and lost her mainmast, by another ship, which 
makes us think it ominous to the Guiny voyage, to have 
two of her ships spoilt before they go out. After dinner, 
my Lady being very fearfull, she staid and kept my wife 
there, and I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. 
Pen’s, went back in the barge, very merry by the way, as 
far as White Hall in her. Mr. Moore hath persuaded me 
to put out 2501. for 501. per annum for eight years, and I 
think I shall do it. 

12th. To the Exchequer, and did give my mother Bow- 
yer a visit, and her daughters, the first time that I did see 
them since I went last to sea. My father did offer me 
six pieces of gold in lieu of six pounds that he borrowed 
of me the other day, but it went against me to take it of 
him, and therefore did not. Home and to bed, reading my- 
self asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by 
my bedside. 

14th. The Comptroller told me among other persons that 
were heretofore the principal officers of the Navy, there 
was one Sir Peter Buck,’ a Clerk of the Acts, of which to 
myself I was not a little proud. 

16th. In the afternoon I went to White Hall, where I was 
surprised with the news of a plot against the King’s person 
and my Lord Monk’s; and that since last night there are 
about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, 
it was my lot to meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, 
who took me and Tom Doling into the Guard in Scotland 
Yard, and showed us Major-General Overton.” Here I 


1Peter Buck, secretary to Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, 
the Lord High Admiral, and afterwards knighted. Our Diarist aspired 
to a similar distinction. Buck is described in Pepys’s Book of Signs 
Manual, as “ Clerk of the Acts of the Navy in 1608,” 


2See March 6, 1659-60, and note. 
K 2 


132 DIARY OF 


heard him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but 
that whereas it is said that he is found to have brought 
many armes to towne, he says it is only to sell them, as 
he will prove by oath. To my Lady’s, and staid with her 
an hour or two, talking of the Duke of York and his lady, 
the Chancellor’s daughter, between whom, she tells me, that 
all is agreed, and he will marry her. But I know not how 
true yet. ; 

17th. To the office, where both Sir Williams were come 
from Woolwich, and tell us that, contrary to their expecta- 
tions, the Assurance is got up, without much damage to 
her body, only to the goods that she had within her, which 
argues her to be a strong, good ship. ‘This day my parlour 
is gilded, which do please me well. 

18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking 
after my workmen. 

19th. This night Mr. Gauden’* sent me a great chine of 
beef, and half a dozen of tongues. 

20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may. 
get all done before Christmas. This day I hear that the 
Princess Royall has the smallpox. 

21st. They told me that this is St. Thomas’s, and that, 
by an old custome, this day the Exchequer men had form- 
erly, and do intend this night to have a supper; which, if 
I could, I promised to come to, but did not. To my 
Lady’s, and dined with her: she told me how dangerously 
ill the Princess Royal is: and that this morning she was 
said to be dead. But she hears that she hath married her- 
self to young Jermyn,’ which is worse than the Duke of 
York’s marrying the Chancellor’s daughter, which is now 
publicly owned. 

22d. Went to the Sunne taverne, on Fish Street hill, to 
a dinner of Captaine Teddiman’s,* where was my Lord 


1Dennis Gauden, Victualler to the Navy, subsequently knighted, 
while sheriff of London: the large house at Clapham, in which Pepys 
died, was built by him, and intended as a palace for the Bishops of Win- 
chester; his brother, Dr. John Gauden, at that time having expected 
to be translated from Exeter to that See, but he was promoted to Wor- 
cester. Sir Dennis was ultimately ruined, and his villa purchased by 
William Hewer. : 

? Henry Jermyn, Master of the Horse to the Duke of York. 


8 Afterwards Admiral Sir Thomas Teddiman. 


a] 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 133 


Inchiquin’ (who seems to be a very fine person), Sir W. 
Pen, Captain Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence* (a fine 
gentleman, now going to Algiers), and other good com- 
pany, where we had a very fine dinner, good musique, and 
a great deal of wine. I very merry. Went to bed: my 
head aching all night. 

23d. (Lord’s day.) In the morning to church, where 
our pew all covered with rosemary and baize. A stranger 
made a dull sermon. Home, and found my wife and maid 
with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey sent 
me this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now 
minister in Huntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and 
so I was fain to stay till two o’clock, and after that to 
church with my wife, and a good sermon there was, and 
so home. 

24th. Commissioner Pett told me that he had lately pre- 
sented a piece of plate (being a couple of flaggons) to 
Mr. Coventry, but he did not receive them, which also put 
me upon doing the same too; and so after dinner I went 
and chose a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me 
at Alderman Backwell’s. This day the Princess Royall died 
at White Hall. 

25th. (Christmas day.) In the morning to church, where 
Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. Home to dinner, 
where my brother Tom (who this morning come to see my 
wife’s new mantle put on, which do please me very well) to 
a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner to 
church again, my wife and I, where he had a dull sermon 
of a stranger, which made me sleep. 

26th. To my Lord’s, where I found Sir Thomas Bond? 
(whom I never saw before) with a message from the Queene 
about vessells for the carrying over of her goods. To White 
Hall by water, and dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at 


1Murrough O’Brien, sixth baron of Inchiquin, in Ireland, advanced 
to the dignity of an Earl about this time. 


2 Afterwards Sir John Lawrence. 


Sir Thomas Bond was a Roman Catholic; Comptroller of the 
Household to the Queen Dowager; created a baronet in 1658 by 
Charles II., to whom, whilst in exile, he had advanced large sums. He 
died in 1685, and lies buried at Camberwell, in which parish he had 
purchased an estate at Peckham, and built a house alienated by his son, 
Sir Henry, to Chief Justice Trevor. 


134 DIARY OF [29th Dec, 


table did tell me how much fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer 
and the rest of the Doctors, for the death of the Princess.* 
My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in 
order to his going to sea with the Queen. 

27th. To Alderman Backwell’s again, where I found the 
candlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to 
my Lord’s, and left the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. 
This afternoon there came in a strange lord to Sir William 
Batten’s by a mistake, and takes discourse with him, so that 
we could not be rid of him till Sir Arn[old] Breames,’ and 
Mr. Bens, and Sir W. Pen, fell a-drinking to him till he 
was drunk, and so sent him away. About the middle of the 
night I was very ill—I think with eating and drinking too 
much—and so I was forced to call the mayde, who pleased 
my wife and I in her running up and down so innocently in 
her smock. 

28th. Staid within all the afternoon and evening, at my 
lute, with great pleasure. 

29th. Several people to speak with me: Mr. Shepley for 
1001.; Mr. Kennard and Warren? the merchant about deales 
for my Lord. Captain Robert Blake lately come from the 
Streights about some Florence wine for my Lord. To 
Alderman Backwell’s, and took a brave state-plate and 
cupp in lieu of the candlesticks that I had the other 
day, and carried them by coach to my Lord’s, and left 
them there. Home with my father, he telling me what 
bad wives both my cozen Joyces make to their hus- 
bands, which I much wondered at. After talking of my 
sister’s coming to me next week, I went home and to 


bed. 


1 She died 24th December, 1660. 


?Sir Arnold Beames, or Brahams, of Bridge Court, Kent, was son of 
Charles Breames, of Dover, and was knighted at Canterbury, 27th May, 
1660. He married, first, Joana, daughter of Walter Henflete (or 
Septvans); secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Dudley Digges, Master 
of the Rolls; and thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, 
of Wingham, Bart. 


’ Charles II., April 12, 1662, knighted a rich tradesman of Wapping, 
named William Warren. Le Neve says he was “a great builder of 
ships for King Charles II.” And there is still in that parish a place 
called “ Sir William Warren’s Square,” built on the site of the knight’s 
residence, 


——— 


1660] SAMUEL PEPYS 135 


30th. (Lord’s day.) Being up, I went with Will to my 
Lord’s, calling in at many churches in my way. There I 
found Mr. Shepley in his Venetian cap, taking physic in his 
chamber. Mr. Childe and I spent some time at the lute. 
I to the Abby, and walked there, seeing the great confusion 
of people that come there to hear the organs. 

81st. In Paul’s Church-yard I bought the play of Henry 
the Fourth, and so went to the new Theatre | Killigrew’s | 
and saw it acted; but my expectation being too great, it 
did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would; and my 
having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. That being 
done, I went to my Lord’s, where I found him private at 
cards with my Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour, 
my boy taking a cat home with him from my Lord’s, which 
Sarah had given him for my wife, we being much troubled 
with mice. At White Hall we inquiring for a coach, there 
was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, 
so he and I hired the coach between us, and he set me down 
in Fenchurch Street. Strange, how the fellow, without 
asking, did tell me all what he was, and how he had run away 
from his father, and come into England to serve the King, 
and now going back again, &c. 


1660-61. 


At the end of the last and the beginning of this year, 
I do live in one of the houses belonging to the Navy Office, 
as one of the principal officers, and have done now about 
half-a-year; my family being, myself, my wife, Jane, Will. 
Hewer, and Wayneman,' my girl’s brother. My self in con- 
stant good health, and in a most handsome and thriving 
condition. Blessed be Almighty God for it! As to things 
of State—The King settled and loved of all. The Duke of 
York matched to my Lord Chancellor’s daughter, which do 
not please many. The Queen upon her returne to France 
with the Princess Henrietta.2_ The Princess of Orange* 


1Tt would appear from this notice of the boy Wayneman, that he was 
forgiven, and continued in Pepys’s service. 

2 Youngest daughter of Charles I., married soon after to Philip, Duke 
of Orleans, only brother of Louis XIV. She died suddenly in 1670, 
not without suspicion of having been poisoned. 

®Or Princess Royal. See ante, note to May 16th, and Dec. 2\st. 


136 DIARY OF [1st Jan. 


lately dead, and we into new mourning for her. We 
have been lately frighted with a great plot,’ and many taken 
up on it, and the fright not quite over. The Parliament, 
which had done all this great good to the King, begin- 
ning to grow factious, the King did dissolve it Decem- 
ber 29th last, and another likely to be chosen speedily. I 
take myself now to be worth 300]. clear in money, and ail 
my goods, and all manner of debts paid, which are none 
at all. 

1660-61. January Ist. Mr. Moore, to my great comfort, 
tells me that my fees will come to 80l. clear to myself, and 
about 251. for him, which he hath got out of the pardons, 
though there be no fees due to me at all out of them. 
Then comes in my brother Thomas, and after him my father, 
Dr. Thomas Pepys, my uncle Fenner and his two sons, 
(Anthony’s only child dying this morning, yet he was so 
civil to come, and was pretty merry) to breakfast; and I 
had for them a barrel of oysters, a dish of neat’s tongues, 
and a dish of anchovies, wine of all sorts, and Northdowne 
ale. We were very merry till about eleven o’clock, and 
then they went away. At noon I carried my wife by coach 
to my cozen, Thomas Pepys, where we, with my father, 
Dr. Thomas, cozen Hardwick, Scott, and their wives, dined. 
Here I saw first his second wife, which is a very respect- 
full woman; but his dinner a sorry, poor dinner for a man 
of his estate, there being nothing but ordinary meat in 
it. To-day the King dined at a lord’s two doors from us. 
Mr. Moore and I went to Mr. Pierce’s; in our way seeing 
the Duke of York bring his Lady to-day to wait upon 
the Queen, the first time that ever she did since that busi- 
ness; and the Queen is said to receive her now with much 
respect and love; and there he cast up the fees, and I 
told the money, by the same token the 1001. bag, after I 
had told it, fell all about the room, and I fear I have 
lost some of it. Supped with them and Mr. Pierce, the 


1“ A great rising in the city of the Fifth-monarchy men, which did 
very much disturb the peace and liberty of the people, so that all the 
train-bands arose in arms, both in London and Westminster, as likewise 
all the king’s guards; and most of the noblemen mounted, and put all 
their servants on coach horses, for the defence of his Majesty, and the 
peace of his kingdom.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


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purser, and his wife and mine, where we had a calf’s head 
carboned, but it was raw—we could not eat it—and a 
good hen. But she is such a slut that I do not love her 
victuals. 

2d. My Lord did give me many commands in his business: 
as about taking care to write to my uncle that Mr. Barne- 
well’s papers should be locked up, in case he should die, 
he being now suspected to be very ill. Also about con- 
sulting with Mr..W. Montague for the settling of the 40001. 
a-year that the King had promised my Lord: as also about 
getting Mr. George Montagu to be chosen at Huntingdon 
this next Parliament, &c. That done, he to White Hall 
stairs with much company, and I with him; where we 
took water for Lambeth, and there coach for Portsmouth. 
The Queen’s things were all in White Hall Court, ready 
to be sent away, and her Majesty ready to be gone an 
hour after to Hampton Court to-night, and so to be at 
Portsmouth on Saturday next. Home to dinner, where 
I found Pall (my sister) was come; but I do not let her 
sit down at table with me,* which I do at first that she may 
not expect it hereafter from me. To Mr. George Montagu 
about the business of election, and he did give me a piece 
in gold; so to my Lord’s, and got the chest of plate brought 
to the Exchequer, and my brother Spicer put into his trea- 
sury. I tooke a turne in the Hall, and bought the King 
and Chancellor’s speeches at the dissolving the Parliament 
last Saturday. This day I left Sir W. Batten and Captain 
Rider my chine of beefe for to serve to-morrow at Trinity 
House, the Duke of Albemarle being to be there, and all 
the rest of the Brethren, it being a great day for the read- 
ing over of their new charter, which the King hath newly 
given them. 

3d. To the Theatre, where was acted “ Beggar’s Bush,” it 
being very well done; and here the first time that ever I 
saw women come upon the stage. 

4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone 
to my father’s to dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood, my mother 
being gone out of town. I had been early this morning at 
White Hall, at the Jewell Office,? to choose a piece of gilt 


1See ante, Nov. 12th. 
2 Several of the Jewel Office rolls are in the British Museum. They 


138 DIARY OF [7th Jan. 


plate for my Lord, in returne of his offering to the King 
(which it seems is usual at this time of year, and an Earle 
gives twenty pieces in gold in a purse to the King). I chose 
a gilt tankard, weighing 31 ounces and a half, and he is 
allowed 30; so I paid 12s. for the ounce and half over what 
he is to have: but strange it was for me to see what a com- 
pany of small fees I was called upon by a great many to pay 
there, which, I perceive, is the manner that courtiers do get 
their estates. After dinner, Mr. Moore and I to the theatre, 
where was ‘‘ The Scornefull Lady” acted very well, it being 
the first play that ever he saw. 

5th. The great Tom Fuller come to me to desire a kind- 
ness for a friend of his,‘ who hath a mind to go to Jamaica 
with these two ships that are going, which I promised to do. 
Staying in Paul’s Churchyard, to bespeak Ogilby’s AXsop’s 
Fables and Tully’s Officys to be bound for me. 

6th. (Lord’s day.) My wife and I to church this morning. 
_ To church again, where, before sermon, a long Psalm was set 
that lasted an houre, while the sexton gathered his year’s 
contribucion through the whole church. After sermon home, 
and there I went to my chamber, and wrote a letter to send 
to Mr. Coventry with a piece of plate along with it, which I 
do preserve among my other letters. 

7th. This morning news was brought to me to my bed- 
side, that there had been a great stir in the City this night 
by the Fanatiques,” who had been up and killed six or seven 


recite all the sums of money given to the King, and the particulars of 
all the plate distributed in his name, as well as gloves and sweetmeats. 
The Museum possesses these rolls for the 4th, 9th, 18th, 30th, and 31st 
Fliz.; for the 13th Charles I.; and the 23rd, 24th, 26th, and 27th of 
Charles II. 


*Peter Beckford, who resided in Dr. Fuller’s neighbourhood. Mr. 
Beckford, of Maidenhead, tailor, left two sons, one of whom, Thomas, 
a clothworker, became Sheriff of London, and was knighted on the 29th 
December, 1677. He is the slop-seller mentioned postea, Feb. 21, 
1667-8. His brother, Peter Beckford, probably the person alluded to 
in Jan. 1, 1668-9, had a son of the same names, who rose to the rank of 
Colonel in the army, having estates in Jamaica, and settling in that 
island. He became President of the Council there, in the latter part 
of Charles the Second’s reign; was made Governor and Commander- 
in-Chief by William III., and died immensely rich. Governor Beck- 
ford had a son of the same names, who was father of the well-known 
Alderman Beckford, and grandfather of the late owner of Fonthill. 


2 Headed by the notorious Thomas Venner the Fifth-monarchy man, 


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men, but all are fled. My Lord Mayor and the whole City 
had been in armes, above 40,000. ‘Tom and I and my wife 
to the Theatre, and there saw “ 'The Silent Woman.” Among 
other things here, Kinaston, the boy, had the good turn to 
appear in three shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary 
clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a gallant; 
and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole 
house: and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the 
handsomest man in the house. From thence by link to my 
cozen Hardwicke’s, where my father and we and Dr. Pepys, 
Scott and his wife, and one Mr. Ward and his; and after a 
good supper, we had an excellent cake, where the mark for 
the Queen was cut, and so there were two queens, my wife 
and Mrs. Ward; and the King being lost, they chose the 
Doctor to be king: so we made him send for some wine, 
and then home. In our way we were in many places strictly 
examined, more than in the worst of times, there being great 
fears of these Fanatiques rising again: for the present, I do 
not hear that any of them are taken. 

8th. To Westminster, where I dined with my Lady. 
After dinner I took my Lord Hinchingbroke and Mr. Sidney 
to the Theatre, and shewed them ‘“‘ The Widdow,’” an 
indifferent good play, but wronged by the women’s being 
much too sad in their parts. That being done, my Lord’s 
coach waited for us, and so back to my Lady’s, where she 
made me drink of some Florence wine, and did give me two 
bottles for my wife. Some talk to-day of a head of Fana- 
tiques that do appear about, but I do not believe it. How- 
ever, my Lord Mayor, Sir Richard Browne, hath carried 
himself very honourably, and hath caused one of their 
meeting-houses in London to be pulled down. 

9th. Waked in the morning about six o’clock by people 
running up and down in Mr. Davis’s house, talking that the 
Fanatiques were up in armes in the City. And so I rose 
and went forth; where in the street I found every body in 
armes at the doors. So I returned (though with no good 


a cooper and preacher to a conventicle in Coleman Street. He was a 
violent enthusiast and leader in this insurrection, and badly wounded 
before he could be taken, fighting with courage amounting to despe- 
ration. 


1“ The Widow,” a comedy, by B. Jonson, Fletcher, and Middleton. 


140 DIARY OF [10th Jan. 


courage at all, but that I might not seem to be afraid) and 
got my sword and pistol, which, however, I had no powder 
to charge; and went to the door, where I found Sir R. Ford,* 
and with him I walked up and down as far as the Exchange, 
and there I left him. In our way, the streets full of train- 
bands, and great stir. What mischief these rogues have 
done! and I think near a dozen had been killed this morning 
on both sides. The shops shut, and all things in trouble. 
Home to my lute till late, and then to bed, there being strict 
guards all night in the city, though most of the enemies, 
they say, are killed or taken.” 

10th. There comes Mr. Hensly to me, and brings me my 
money for the quarter of a year’s salary of my place under 
Downing that I was at sea: so I did give him half, whereof 
he did in his noblenesse give the odd 5s. to my Jane. Talking 
of his wooing afresh of Mrs. Lane, and of his going to serve 
the Bishop of London. After dinner, Will comes to tell me 
that he had presented my piece of plate to Mr. Coventry, 
who takes it very kindly, and sends me a very kind letter, 
and the plate back again; of which my heart is very glad. 
Mr. Davis told us the particular examinations of these 
Fanatiques that are taken: and in short it is this, these 
Fanatiques that have routed all the train-bands that they 
met with, put the King’s life-guards to the run, killed about 
twenty men, broke through the City gates twice; and all 
this in the day-time, when all the City was in armes;—are 
not in all above 31. Whereas we did believe them (because 
they were seen up and down in every place almost in the 
City, and had been in Highgate* two or three days, and in 
several other places) to be at least 500. A thing that never 
was heard of, that so few men should dare and do so much 
mischief. Their word was, “The King Jesus, and their 
heads upon the gates.” Few of them would receive any 
quarter, but such as were taken by force and kept alive; 


1Lord Mayor of London, 1671. 

?For a contemporary account of the trials and executions of these 
fanatics, see Somers’s Tracts, vol. vii., p. 469, Sir W. Scott’s edition. 

*In Ken, or Caen Wood, to which place Venner retreated with his 
followers. (See Neal’s History of the Puritans.) 'The extent of Ken 
Wood must not be estimated by the small portion now surrounding 
Lord Mansfield’s mansion. Ken Wood formed only a part of a large 
forest belonging to the See of London. 


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expecting Jesus to come here and reign in the world 
presently, and will not believe yet. The King this day 
come to towne. 

11th. (Office day.) This day comes news, by letters from 
Portsmouth, that the Princess Henrietta is fallen sick of 
the meazles on board the London, after the Queen’ and 
she was under sail. And so was forced to come back into 
Portsmouth harbour; and in their way, by negligence of 
the pilot, run upon the Horse sand. The Queen and she 
continued aboard, and do not intend to come on shore till 
she sees what will become of the young Princess. This 
newes do make people think something indeed, that three 
of the Royal family should fall sick of the same disease, 
one after another. This morning, likewise, we had order 
to see guards set in all the King’s yards; and so Sir William 
Batten goes to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby and I to Dept- 
ford and Woolwich. Portsmouth being a garrison, needs 
none. To the coffee-house, where I met Captain Morrice, 
the upholsterer, who would fain have lent me a horse to- 
night to have rid with him upon the city-guards, with the 
Lord Mayor, there being some new expectations of these 
rogues; but I refused, by reason of my going out of town 
to-morrow. So home to bed. 

12th. With Colonel Slingsby and a friend of his, Major 
Waters, (a deafe and most amorous melancholy gentleman, 
who is under a despayr in love, as the Colonel told me, 
which makes him bad company, though a most good- 
natured man) by water to Redriffe, and so on foot to 
Deptford. We fell to choosing four captains to command 
the guards, and choosing the place where to keep them, 
and other things in order thereunto. Never till now did I 
see the great authority of my place, all the captains of 
the fleete coming cap in hand to us. I went home with 
Mr. Davis,” storekeeper (whose wife is ill, and so I could 
not see her), and was there most prince-like lodged, with 
so much respect and honour, that I was at a loss how 
to behave myself. 

18th. (Lord’s day.) To the Globe to dinner, and then 
with Commissioner Pett to his lodgings there (which he 
hath for the present, while he is in building the King’s 


1 Henrietta Maria. 2See ante, 3d December. 


142 DIARY OF [15th Jan. 


yacht, which will be a very pretty thing, and much beyond 
the Dutchman’s), and from thence by coach to Greenwich 
church, where a good sermon, a fine church, and a great 
company of handsome women. And so I to Mr. Davis’s to 
bed again. But no sooner in bed but we had an alarme, 
and so we rose: and the Comptroller’ comes into the yard to 
us; and seamen of all the ships present repair to us, and 
there we armed with every one a handspike, with which 
they were as fierce as could be. At last we hear that it 
was five or six men that did ride through the guard in the 
towne, without stopping to the guard that was there; and, 
some say, shot at them. But all being quiet there, we 
caused the seamen to go on board again. 

14th. The armes being come this morning from the Tower, 
we caused them to be distributed. I spent much time with 
Lieutenant Lambert, walking up and down the yards, and 
he dined with us. After dinner, Mrs. Pett lent us her coach, 
and carried us to Woolwich, which we did also dispose of the 
arms there, and settle the guards. 

15th. Up and down the yard all morning, and seeing 
the seamen exercise, which they do already very handsomely. 
Then to dinner at Mr. Ackworth’s,” where there also dined 
with us one Captain Bethell, a friend of the Comptroller’s. A 
good dinner, and very handsome. After that, and taking of 
our leave of the officers of the yard, we walked to the water- 
side, and in our way walked into the rope-yard, where I do 
look into the tar-houses and other places, and took great 
notice of all the several works belonging to the making of a 
cable. So after a cup of burnt wine at the taverne there, 
we took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the dock, 
and the new West dock, which is newly made there, and a 
brave new merchantman which is to be launched shortly, and 
they say to be called the Royal Oake. Hence we walked to 
Dick-Shoare,® and thence to the Towre, and so home. I 


1Sir Robert Slingsby. 

*Mr. Ackworth seems to have held some office in Deptford Yard. 
He is frequently mentioned. 

*Duke’s-Shore Stairs is shown in one of Smith’s Maps, 1806. It 
was not far from the great turn of the river southward, opposite to the 
Isle of Dogs. The proper spelling might be—Dick, Dyke, Dock, Dog, 
or Duke, but there seems to be no doubt as to the identity of the place. 
Dick’s-Shore, Fore Street, Limehouse, and Dick’s-Shore Alley by Dick’s 


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perceive none of our officers care much for one another, but 
I do keep in with them all as much as I can. This day I 
hear the Princess is recovered again. The King hath been 
this afternoon at Deptford, to see the yacht’ that Commis- 
sioner Pett* is building, which will be very pretty; as also 
that his brother® at Woolwich is making. 

16th. This morning I went early to the Comptroller’s, 
and so with him by coach to White Hall, to wait upon 
Mr. Coventry, to give him an account of what we have 
done, which having done, I went away to wait upon my 
Lady; but coming to her lodgings, I hear that she has 
gone this morning to Chatham by coach, thinking to meet 
me there, which did trouble me exceedingly, and [I] did 
not know what to do, being loth to follow her, and yet 
could not imagine what she would do when she found 
me not there. In this trouble, I went to take a walk in 
Westminster Hall, and by chance met with Mr. Childe, 
who went forth with my Lady to-day, but his horse being 
bad, he come back again, which then did trouble me more, 
so that I did resolve to go to her; and so by boate home, 
and put on my boots, and so over to Southwarke to the 
post-house, and there took horse and guide to Dartford, 
and then to Rochester, (I having good horses and good 
way, come thither about half an hour after daylight, 
which was before six o’clock, and I set forth after her) 
where I found my Lady and her daughter Jem., and 
Mrs. Browne* and five servants, all at a great loss, not 
finding me here, but at my coming she was overjoyed. 
The sport was, how she had intended to have kept her- 
self unknowne, and how the Captaine® (whom she had 


Shore, are both mentioned in London and its Environs, vol. ii. p. 233, 
edit. 1761. Notes and Queries, vol. i., p. 220. 

1In 1604, a yacht had been built for Henry Prince of Wales, by 
Phineas Pett, to whom the English navy was much indebted in the 
reigns of the early Stuarts. He was the father of Peter and Chris- 
topher. 

seeter “Pett: 5 Christopher Pett. 

“Wife of Captain Arthur Browne, Sir William Batten’s brother-in- 
law. See Feb. 14, 1660-61, and for his death, April 27, 1663. 

5 Afterwards Sir Roger Cuttance. He was Captain of the “ Naseby,” 
rechristened the “Charles.” Henry Cuttance was Captain of the 
“ Cheriton,” or “ Speedwell.” 


144 DIARY OF [7th Jan, 


sent for for) of the Charles had forsoothed* her, though he 
knew her well enough and she him. In fine, we supped 
merry, and so to bed there coming several of the Charles’s 
men to see me before I got to bed. The page lay with me. 

17th. Up and breakfast with my Lady. Then come 
Captain Cuttance and Blake’ to carry her in the barge on 
board, and so we went through Ham Creeke to the 
Soverayne (a goodly sight all the way to see the brave 
ships that lie here) first, which is a most noble ship. I 
never saw [her] before. My Lady Sandwich, my Lady 
Jemimah, Mrs. Browne, Mrs. Grace, and Mary and the 
page, my lady’s servants, and myself, all went into the 
lanthorne together. From thence to the Charles, where 
my Lady took great pleasure to see all the rooms, and to 
hear me tell her how things are when my Lord is there. 
After we had seen all, then the officers of the ship had 
prepared a handsome breakfast for her, and while she was 
pledging my Lord’s health they gave her five gins. That 
done, we went off, and then they gave us thirteen guns 
more. I confess it was great pleasure to myself to see the 
ship that I began my good fortune in. From thence on 
board the Newcastle, to show my Lady the difference 
between a great and a small ship. Among these ships I 
did give away 71. So back again, and went on shore at 
Chatham Yard, where I had ordered the coach to wait for us. 
Here I heard that Sir William Batten and his lady (who I 
knew were here, and did endeavour to avoyd) were now 
gone this morning to London. So we took coach, and I went 
into the coach, and went through the towne, without making 
stop at our inn, but left J. Goods to pay the reckoning. So 
I rode with my lady in the coach, and the page on the horse 
that I should have rid on—he desiring it. It begun to be darke 
before we could come to Dartford, and to rain hard, and the 
horses to fayle, which was our great care to prevent, for 
fear of my Lord’s displeasure: so here we sat up for the 
night, as also Captain Cuttance and Blake, who come along 
with us. We set and talked till supper. My Lady and I 


entered into a great dispute concerning what were best for 


To forsooth, is to treat a person with contempt or derision, in which 
sense it seems to be here used. 
Captain Robert Blake. See ante, Dec. 23rd. 


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a man to do with his estate—whether to make his elder son 
heire, which my Lady is for, and I against, but rather to 
make all equall. This discourse took us much time, till it 
was time to go to bed; but we being merry, we bade my 
Lady good night, and intended to have gone to the Post- 
house to drink, and hear a pretty girl play of the citterne 
(and indeed we should have lain there, but by a mistake we 
did not), but it was late, and we could not hear her, and 
the guard came to examine what we were: so we re- 
turned to our home and to bed, the page and I in one 
bed, and the two captains in another, all in one chamber, 
where we had very good mirth with our most abominable 
lodging. 

18th. The Captains went with me to the post-house about 
nine o’clock, and after a morning draught I took horse and 
guide for London; and though some rain, and a great wind 
in my face, I got to London at eleven o’clock. At home 
found all well, but the monkey loose, which did anger me, 
and so I did strike her till she was almost dead, that they 
might make her fast again, which did still trouble me 
more. Took Mr. Holliard* to the Greyhound, where he did 
advise me above all things, both as to the stone and the 
decay of my memory, (of which I now complain to him) to 
avoid drinking often, which I am resolved, if I can, to leave 
off. Took home with me from the bookseller’s Ogilby’s 
ZEsop, which he had bound for me, and indeed I am very 
much pleased with the book. 

19th. To the Comptroller’s, and with him by coach to 
White Hall; in our way meeting Venner® and Pritchard 
upon a sledge, who with two more Fifth Monarchy men 
were hanged to-day, and the two first drawn and quartered. 
Went to the Theatre, where I saw “‘ The Lost Lady,’”* which 


1 Ward, in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas’s 
Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard’s having cut thirty for the 
stone in one year, who all lived. This surgeon, of whom we read so 
often in the Diary, was probably the person who operated successfully 
upon Pepys when afflicted with a similar complaint, and hence their 
intimacy in after life. 


2Venner and Hodgkins were executed in Coleman Street; Pritchard 
and Oxman at the end of Wood Street. 


3A tragi-comedy, by Sir William Berkeley. 
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146 DIARY OF [22d Jan. 


do not please me much. Here I was troubled to be seen 
by four of our office clerkes, which sat in the half-crowne 
boxe, and I in the 1s. Od. From hence by linke, and bought 
two mouse-traps of Thomas Pepys, the Turner. 

21st. "To Westminster Hall, to the Commissioners for 
paying off the Army and Navy, where the Duke of Albe- 
marle was; and we satt with our hatts on, and did dis- 
course about paying off the ships, and do find that they 
do intend to undertake it without our help; and we are 
glad of it, for it is a work that will much displease the 
poor seamen, and so we are glad to have no hand in it. It 
is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no 
cold at all; but the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly 
up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of leaves, such 
a time of the year as was never known in this world before 
here. ‘This day many more of the Fifth Monarchy men 
were hanged. 

22d. To the Comptroller’s house, where I read over his 
proposals to the Lord Admirall for the regulating of the 
officers of the Navy, in which he hath taken much pains, only 
he do seem to have too good an opinion of them himself. 
From thence in his coach to Mercers’ Chapell, and so up to 
the great hall, where we met with the King’s Councell for 
trade, upon some proposals of theirs for settling convoys for 
the whole English trade, and that by having 33 ships (four 
fourth-rates, nineteen fifths, ten sixth) settled by the King 
for that purpose, which indeed was argued very finely by 
many persons of honour, and merchants that were there. 
It pleased me much now to come in this condition to this 
place, where I was once a petitioner for my exhibition in 
Paul’s School; and also where Sir G. Downing (my late 
master) was chaireman, and so but equally concerned with 
me. I met with Dr. Thomas Fuller; he tells me of his last 
and great book that is coming out: that is, the History of 
all the Families in England; and could tell me more of my 
owne, than I knew myself. And also to what perfection he 
hath now brought the art of memory; that he did lately to 
four eminently great scholars dictate together in Latin, 
upon different subjects of their proposing, faster than they 
were able to write, till they were tired; and that the best 
way of beginning a sentence, if a man should be out and 


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forget his last sentence, (which he never was) that then his 
last refuge is to begin with an Utcunque. 

23d. To Gresham Colledge, (where I never was before) 
and saw the manner of the house, and found great company 
of persons of honour there: thence to my bookseller’s, and 
for books, and to Stevens, the silversmith, to make clean 
some plate against to-morrow, and so home, by the way pay- 
ing many little debts for wine and pictures, which is my 
great pleasure. 

24th. There dined with me Sir William Batten and his 
lady and daughter, Sir W. Pen, Mr. Fox, (his lady being ill 
could not come) and Captain Cuttance; the first dinner I 
have made since I come hither. This cost me above 5l., and 
merry we were—only my chimney smokes. ‘To bed, being 
glad that the trouble is over. 

25th. Interrupted by Mr. Salisbury’s coming in, who 
come to see me, and to show me my Lord’s picture in little, 
of his doing. Truly it is strange to what a perfection he is 
come in a year’s time. This night comes two cages, which 
I bought this evening for my canary birds, which Captain 
Rooth’ this day sent me. 

26th. There dined with me this day both the Pierces* and 
their wives, and Captain Cuttance and Lieutenant Lambert, 
with whom we made ourselves very merry by taking away 
his ribbons*® and garters, having made him to confess that he 
is lately married. 

27th. (Lord’s day.) Before I rose, letters come to me 
from Portsmouth, telling me that the Princess is now well, 
and my Lord Sandwich set sail with the Queen and her 
yesterday from thence to France. To church: a poor dull 
sermon of a stranger. Home, and at dinner was very angry 
at my people’s eating a fine pudding, (made me by Slater, 
the cooke, last Thursday) without my wife’s leave. This 
day the parson read a proclamation at church, for the keep- 
ing of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the 
murther of the late King. 

28th. Dined at home, and after dinner to Fleet Streete 
with my sword to Mr. Brigden (lately made Captain of the 


1Richard Rooth, Captain of the Dartmouth. 
?The surgeon and the purser of the same name. 
®See ante, Jan, 24, 1659-60, 

L2 


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Auxiliaries) to be refreshed, and with him to an ale-house, 
where I met Mr. Davenport, and after some talk of Crom- 
well, Ireton, and Bradshaw’s bodies being taken out of their 
graves to-day, I went to Mr. Crewe’s, and thence to the 
Theatre, where I saw again ** The Lost Lady,’ which do 
now please me better than before; and here I sitting behind 
in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, 
not seeing me; but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, 
I was not troubled at it at all. At Mr. Holden’s I bought 
a hat cost me 35s. 

29th. To Southwark, and so over the fields to Lambeth, 
it being a most glorious and warm day even to amazement 
for this time of the year. My Lady gone with some com- 
pany to see Hampton Court; so we went to Blackfryers,’ 
(the first time I ever was there since plays begun) and 
there, after great patience, and little expectations from so 
poor beginnings, I saw three acts of ** The mayd in y® Mill’ 
acted to my great content. But it being late, I left the 
play, and by water through bridge home, and so to Mr. 
Turner’s house, where the Comptroller, Sir W. Batten, and 
Mr. Davis, and their ladies; and here we had a most neat 
little but costly and genteel supper. After that, a great 
deal of impertinent mirth by Mr. Davis, and some catches, 
and so broke up, and going away, Mr. Davis’s eldest son 
took up my old Lady Slingsby* in his armes, and carried 
her to the coach, and is said to be able to carry three 
of the biggest men that were in the company, which I 
wonder at. 

30th. (Fast day.) The first time that this day hath been 
yet observed: and Mr. Mills made a most excellent sermon 
upon “ Lord, forgive us our former iniquities;” speaking 


1 Noy. 28. The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John 
Bradshaw, and Thomas Pride, were dug up out of their graves to be 
hanged at Tyburn, and buried under the gallows. Cromwell’s vault 
having been opened, the people crowded very much to see him.”—Rugge’s 
Diurnal. 


2 At Apothecaries’ Hall, where Davenant produced the First and 
Second Parts of The Siege of Rhodes.—Downes, p. 20. 
3“ The Maid of the Mill,” a play by J. Fletcher and Rowley. 


‘Margaret, daughter of Sir William Water, an alderman of York. 
She was mother of the Comptroller, widow of Sir Guildford Slingsby 
and, perhaps, related to Major Water, Pepys’s deaf friend. 


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excellently of the justice of God in punishing men for the 
sins of their ancestors. Had a letter from my _ brother 
John, a very ingenious one, and he therein begs to have 
leave to come to town at the Coronacion. To my Lady 
Batten’s; where my wife and she are lately come back 
again from being abroad, and seeing of Cromwell, Ireton,' 
and Bradshaw, hanged and buried at Tyburne.* 

31st. This morning about getting a ship to carry my 
Lord’s deales to Lynne,* and we have chosen the Gift. My 
Lady not well, so I eat a mouthfull of dinner there. To 
the Theatre, and there sat in the pitt among the company 
of fine ladys, &c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see 
Argalus and Parthenia,* the first time that it hath been 
acted: and indeed it is good, though wronged by my over 
great expectations, as all things else are. 

Feb. 2d. Home, where all things in a hurry for dinner—a 
strange cooke being come in the room of Slater, who could 
not come. There dined here my Uncle Wright and my 
Aunt, my father and mother, and my brother Tom, Dr. 
Fairbrother, and Mr. Mills, the parson, and his wife, who 
is a neighbour’s daughter of my uncle Robert’s, and knows 
my aunt Wright and all her and my friends there; and so 
we had excellent company to-day. After dinner I was sent 
for by Sir G. Carteret. Then home; where I found the 
parson and his wife gone, and by and by the rest of the 


1Henry Ireton married Bridget, daughter to Oliver Cromwell, and 
was afterwards one of Charles the First’s Judges, and of the Committee 
who superintended his execution. He died at the siege of Limerick, 
1651. 

2 Jan. 30th was kept as a very solemn day of fasting and prayer. 
This morning the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and “Bradshaw (which 
the day before had been brought from the Red Lion Inn, Holborn), 
were drawn upon a sledge to Tyburn, and then taken out of their 
coffins, and in their shrouds hanged by the neck, until the going down 
of the sun. They were then cut down, their heads taken off, and their 
bodies buried in a grave made under the gallows. The coffin in which 
was the body of Cromwell was a very rich thing, very full of gilded 
hinges and nails.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 

*The timber purchased from Warren (see ante, Dec. 29, 1660), sent 
to Lynn to be conveyed to Hinchingbrooke as the barge was, mentioned 
June 20, 1660. 

*“ Argalus and Parthenia,” a pastoral, by Henry Glapthorn, taken 
from Sydney’s Arcadia. 


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company, very well pleased, and I too; it being the last 
dinner I intend to make a great while. ‘Three dinners within 
a fortnight. 

3d. (Lord’s day.) This day I first begun to go forth in 
my coate and sword, as the manner now among gentlemen 
is. In my way heard Mr. Thomas Fuller preach at the 
Savoy upon our forgiving of other men’s trespasses, shewing 
among other things that we are to go to law never to 
revenge, but only to repayre, which I think a good dis- 
tinction. To White Hall; where I staid to hear the trum- 
pets and kettle-drums, and then the other drums, which are 
much cried up, though I think it dull, vulgar musick. So 
to Mr. Fox’s unbidd; where I had a good dinner and 
special company. Among other discourse, I observed one 
story, how my Lord of Northwich,’ at a public audience 
before the King of France, made the Duke of Anjou cry, 
by making ugly faces as he was stepping to the King, but 
undiscovered. And how Sir Phillip Warwick’s* lady did 
wonder to have Mr. Darcy*® send for several dozen bottles of 
Rhenish wine to her house, not knowing that the wine was 
his. Thence to my Lord’s; where I am told how Sir Tho- 


*This story relates to circumstances which had occurred many years 
previously. George, Lord Goring, was sent by Charles I. as Ambassador 
Extraordinary to France in 1644, to witness the oath of Louis XIV. to 
the observance of the treaties concluded with England by his father, 
Louis XIII., and his grandfather, Henry IV. Louis XIV. took this oath 
at Ruel, on the 3d July, 1644, when he was not yet six years of age, 
and when his brother Philippe, then called Duke of Anjou, was not 
four years old. Shortly after his return home, Lord Goring was created, 
in September, 1644, Earl of Norwich, the title by which he is here men- 
tioned. Philippe, Duke of Anjou, who was frightened by the English 
nobleman’s ugly faces, took the title of Duke of Orleans after the death 
of his uncle, Jean Baptiste Gaston, in 1660. He married his cousin, 
Henrietta of England, and (by his second wife) is the direct ancestor of 
Louis Philippe, King of the French. 


* Sir Philip Warwick, employed as Secretary to Charles I. in the Isle 
of Wight, and Clerk of the Signet, to which place he was restored in 
1660; knighted, and elected M.P. for Westminster. He was also Secre- 
tary to the Treasury under Lord Southampton till 1667. Ob. 1682-3. 
His second wife here mentioned was Joan, daughter to Sir Henry Fan- 
shawe, and widow of Sir William Boteler, Bart. He left memoirs be- 
hind him that have been published. 


®’Duke Darcy. See note ante, 24th May, 1660. 


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mas Crewe’s' Pedro, with two of his countrymen more, did 
last night kill one soldier of four that quarrelled with them 
in the street, about ten o’clock. The other two are taken; 
but he is now hid at my Lord’s till night, that he do intend 
to make his escape away. 

4th. To the tavern, where Sir William Pen, and the 
Comptroller, and several others were, men and women; and 
we had a very great and merry dinner; and after dinner 
the Comptroller begun some sports, among others, the 
naming of people round, and afterwards demanding questions 
of them that they are forced to answer their names to, which 
do make very good sport. And here I took pleasure to take 
forfeits of the ladies who would not do their duty by kissing 
of them: among others a pretty lady, who I found after- 
wards to be wife to Sir William Batten’s son.” We sat late, 
talking with my Lady and others, and Dr. Whistler,” who I 
found good company and a very ingenious man: so home 
and to bed. 

5th. Washing-day. My wife and I by water to West- 
minster. She to her mother’s, and I to Westminster Hall, 
where I found a full terme, and there saw my Lord Treasurer,* 
(who was sworn to-day at the Exchequer, with a great com- 
pany of Lords and persons of honour to attend him) go up 
to the Treasury Offices, and take possession thereof; and 
also saw the heads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton, set 
up at the further end of the Hall. I went by coach to 
the playhouse at the Theatre. Our coach in King Street 
breaking, and so took another. Here we saw Argalus and 
Parthenia, which I lately saw, but though pleasant for the 
dancing and singing, I do not find good for any wit or 
design therein. 

"th. To Westminster Hall. And after a walk to my 
Lord’s; where, while I and my Lady were in her chamber 


1Bldest son of Mr., afterwards Lord Crewe, whom he succeeded in 
that title. 

? Benjamin Batten. See ante, 26th Nov. 1660, and note. 

’ Daniel Whistler, Fellow of Merton College, took the degree of M.D. 
at Leyden, 1645: and, after practising in London, went as Physician to 
the Embassy, with Bulstrode Whitlock, into Sweden. On his return, 
he became Fellow, and at length President, of the College of Physicians. 
Ob. 1684. He was nearly connected with Sir John Cutler. 


“Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, last of his name. 


152 DIARY OF [8th Feb. 


in talk, in comes my Lord from sea, to our great wonder. 
He had dined at Havre de Grace on Monday last, and 
come to the Downes the next day, and lay at Canterbury 
that night; and so to Dartford, and thence this morning to 
White Hall. Amony others, Mr. Creed and Captain Fer- 
rers tell me the stories of my Lord Duke of Buckingham’s 
and my Lord’s falling out at Havre de Grace, at cards; 
they two and my Lord St. Albans playing. The Duke did, 
to my Lord’s dishonour, often say that he did in his consci- 
ence know the contrary to what he then said, about the 
difference at cards; and so did take up the money that he 
should have lost to my Lord, which my Lord resenting, 
said nothing then, but that he doubted not but there were 
ways enough to get his money of him. So they parted 
that night; and my Lord sent Sir R. Stayner the next 
morning to the Duke, to know whether he did remember 
what he said last night, and whether he would owne it with 
his sword and a second; which he said he would, and so 
both sides agreed. But my Lord St. Albans, and the Queen, 
and Ambassador Montagu, did way-lay them at their lodg- 
ings, till the difference was made up, to my Lord’s honour; 
who hath got great reputation thereby. 

8th. Captain John Cuttle, and Curtis, and Mootham,* 
and I, went to the Fleece Taverne* to drink; and there we 
spent till four o’clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the 
manner of life of slaves there. And truly Captain Mootham 
and Mr. Dawes*® (who have been both slaves there), did 
make me fully acquainted with their condition there: as, 
how they eat nothing but bread and water. At their re- 
demption they pay so much for the water they drink at 
the public fountaynes, during their being slaves. How 
they are beat upon the soles of their feet and bellies, at 
the liberty of their padron. How they are all, at night, 
called into their master’s Bagnard; and there they lie. How 
the poorest men do love their slaves best. How some rogues 
do live well, if they do invent to bring their masters in so 


1Peter Mootham, Captain of the Foresight; afterwards slain in 
action. 

?In Covent Garden. 

3 John Dawes, created a baronet in 1663, father of Sir William Dawes, 
Archbishop of York. 


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much a week by their industry or theft; and then they are 
put to no other work at all. And theft there is counted no 
great crime at all, 

9th. Creed and I to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and 
saw “the Mad Lover,’ the first time I ever saw it acted, 
which I like pretty well. 

10th. (Lord’s day.) Took physique all day, and, God 
forgive me, did spend it in reading of some little French 
romances. At night my wife and I did please ourselves 
talking of our going into France, which I hope to effect this 
summer. 

12th. By watér to Salisbury Court play-house, where, not 
liking to sit, we went out again, and by coach to the The- 
atre, and there saw ‘* The Scornfull Lady,” now done by a 
woman, which makes the play much better than ever it 
did to me. 

13th. To Sir W. Batten’s, whither I sent for my wife, 
and we chose Valentines against to-morrow. My wife chose 
me, which did much please me; my Lady Batten, Sir W. 
Pen, &c. 

14th. (Valentine’s day.) Up early, and to Sir W. Bat- 
ten’s, but could not go in till I asked whether they that 
opened the doore was a man or a woman, and Mingo, who 
was there, answered a woman, which, with his tone, made 
me laugh; so up I went, and took Mrs. Martha’® for my 
Valentine (which I do only for complacency), and Sir W. 
Batten he go in the same manner to my wife, and so we 
were very merry. About ten o’clock, we with a great deal 
of company went down by our barge to Deptford, and there 
only went to see how forward Mr. Pett’s yacht is: and so 
all into the barge again, and so to Woolwich, on board the 
Rose-bush, Captain Brown’s* ship, that is brother-in-law to 
Sir W. Batten, where we had a very fine dinner, dressed on 
shore, and great mirth, and all things successfull: the first 
time I ever carried my wife a-ship-board, as also my boy 
Wayneman, who hath all this day been called young Pepys, 
as Sir W. Pen’s boy young Pen. The talk of the towne 


*By Beaumont and Fletcher. 

?Mrs. Marshall. See Downes’s Roscius Anglicanus, p. 6. 
8 Sir William Batten’s daughter. 

*Arthur Browne. See ante, 16th Jan. 1660-61. 


154 DIARY OF [18th Feb. 


now is, who the King is like to have for his Queen: and 
whether Lent shall be kept with the strictnesse of the 
King’s proclamation; which is thought cannot be, because 
of the poor, who cannot buy fish. And also the great pre- 
paration for the King’s crowning is now much thought upon 
and talked of. 

15th. Making up my accounts for my Lord to-morrow; 
and that being done, I found myself to be clear (as I think) 
3501. in the world, besides my goods in my house, and all 
things paid for. 
' 16th. To my Lord in the morning, who looked over my 
accounts, and agreed to them. I do also get him to sign a 
bill (which do make my heart merry) for 601. to me, in con- 
sideration of my work extraordinary at sea this last voyage, 
which I hope to get paid. To the Theatre, where I saw the 
* Virgin Martyr,’ a good, but too sober a play for the 
company. 

17th. (Lord’s day.) A most tedious, unreasonable, and 
impertinent sermon, by an Irish doctor. His text was, 
“Scatter them, O Lord, that delight in warr.” Sir W. 
Batten and I very much angry with the parson. 

18th. In the afternoon my wife and I, and Mrs. Martha 
Batten, my Valentine, to the Exchange, and -there, upon a 
payre of embroydered and six payre of plain white gloves, I 
laid out 40s. upon her. Then we went to a mercer’s, at the 
end of Lombard Street, and there she bought a suit of lute- 
string for herself; and so home. It is much talked that 
the King is already married to the niece of the Prince de 
Ligne,” and that he hath two sons already by her: which 
I am sorry to hear; but yet am gladder that it should be 
so than that the Duke of York and his family should come 
to the crowne, he being a professed friend to the Catho- 
liques. Met with Sir G. Carteret: who afterwards, with 
the Duke of York, my Lord Sandwich, and others, went 
into a private room to consult: and we were a little troubled 
that we were not called in with the rest. But I do believe 
it was upon something very private. We staid walking in 


*“The Virgin Martyr,” by Massinger and T. Decker. 

* Can this be meant for Mazarin, as the Prince de Ligne had no niece? 
but Charles had recently made an offer to Hortense Mancini, to whom 
Cardinal Mazarin was uncle. 


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the gallery; where we met with Mr. Slingsby,’ who showed 
me the stamps of the King’s new coyne; which is strange 
to see, how good they are in the stamp, and bad in the 
money, for lack of skill to make them. But he says Blon- 
deau* will shortly come over, and then we shall have it 
better, and the best in the world. He tells me, he is sure 
that the King is not yet married, as it is said; nor that it 
is known who he will have. Spent the evening in reading 
-of a Latin play, the “ Naufragium Joculare.’”* 

21st. To Westminster by coach with Sir W. Pen, and in 
our way saw the city begin to build scaffolds against the 
Coronacion. 

22d. My wife to Sir W. Batten’s, and there sat a while; 
he having yesterday sent my wife half a dozen pair of 
gloves and a pair of silk stockings and garters, for her 
Valentine. 

23d. This my birthday, 28 years. Mr. Hartlibb told me 
how my Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke of York 
and Duchess, and her woman, my Lord QOssory* and a 
Doctor, to make oath before most of the Judges of the 
kingdom, concerning all the circumstances of their mar- 
riage. And in fine; it is confessed that they were not fully 
married till about a month or two before she was brought 
to bed; but that they were contracted long before, and time 
enough for the child to be legitimate.” But I do not 
hear that it was put to the Judges to determine whether 
it was so or no. To my Lord, and there spoke to him 
about his opinion of the Light, the sea-marke that Cap- 
tain Murford is about, and do offer me an eighth part 
to concern myself with it; and my Lord do give me some 
encouragement in it, and I shall go on. To the Play-house 
[Davenant’s], and there saw “ The Changeling,”® the first 


Henry Slingsby, Master of the Mint of Kilpax, near Leeds. 


Peter Blondeau had been employed by the Commonwealth to coin 
their money, and after the Restoration was made Engineer of the mint. 


*A comedy, by Abraham Cowley. 


“Thomas, Earl of Ossory, the accomplished son of the first Duke of 
Ormond. Ob. 1680, aged 46, y. p. 


5 See May 6, 1661. 


*“The Changeling,” a tragedy, by Thomas Middleton and William 
Rowley, 4to. 1653, and 4to. 1668. The plot is taken from a story in 


156 DIARY OF -— [prth Feb. 


time it hath been acted these twenty years, and it takes ex- 
ceedingly. Besides, I see the gallants do begin to be tyred 


with the vanity and pride of the theatre actors, who are_ 


indeed grown very proud and rich. I also met with the 
Comptroller, who told me how it was easy for us all, the 
principal officers, and proper for us, to labour to get into 
the next Parliament; and would have me to ask the Duke’s 
letter, but I shall not endeavour it. This is now 28 years 
that I am born. And blessed be God, in a state of full, 
content, and a great hope to be a happy man in all re- 
spects, both to myself and friends. 

24th. (Sunday.) Mr. Mills made as excellent a sermon 
in the morning against drunkenesse, as ever I heard in 
my life: another good one of his in the afternoon. My 
Valentine had her fine gloves on at church to-day that I did 
give her. 

25th. To Mr. Symons’s, where we found him abroad, but 
she, like a good lady, within, and there we did eat some 
nettle porrige, which was made on purpose to-day for some 
of their coming, and was very good. 

26th. (Shrove Tuesday.) To Mr. Crewe’s, and there 
delivered Cotgrave’s Dictionary” to my Lady Jemimah. To 
Mrs. Turner’s, where several friends, all strangers to me 
but Mr. Armiger, dined. Very merry, and the best fritters 
that ever I eat in my life. After that, looked out at 
window: saw the flinging at cocks. 

27th. I walked in the garden with little Captain Mur- 
ford, where he and I had some discourse concerning the 
Light-House again, and I think I shall appear in the busi- 
ness, he promising me that if I can bring it about, it will 
be worth 1001. per annum. I called for a dish of fish, which 
we had for dinner, this being the first day of Lent; and 
I do intend to try whether I can keep it or no. My father 
did show me a letter from my brother John, wherein he 
tells us that he is chosen schollar of the house,’ which 
do please me much, because I do perceive now it must chiefly 
come from his merit, and not the power of his tutor, Dr. 


Reynolds’s God’s Revenge against Murder. Sheppey played Antonio in 
“The Changeling.” 

1 Probably a letter of recommendation to some constituency. 

? Of the French tongue. ® Christ’s College, Cambridge. 


. 


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Widdrington, who is now quite out of interest there, and 
hath put over his pupils to Mr. Pepper, a young Fellow 
of the College. This day the Commissioners of Parlia- 
ment begin to pay off the fleet, beginning with the Hamp- 
shire, and do it at Guildhall, for fear of going out of the 
town, into the power of the seamen, who are highly in- 
censed against them. 

28th. Notwithstanding my resolution, yet, for want of 
other victuals, I did eat flesh this Lent, but am resolved 
to eat as little as I can. This month ends with two great 
secrets under dispute, but yet known to very few: first, 
Who the King will marry; and What the meaning of this 
fleet is which we are now sheathing to set out for the 
southward. Most think against Algiers, against the Turke, 
or to the East Indys against the Dutch, who, we hear, are 
setting out a great fleet thither. 

March Ist. After dinner, Mr. Shepley and I in private 
talking about my Lord’s intentions to go speedily into the 
country, but to what end we know not. We fear he is to 
go to sea with this fleet now preparing. But we wish that 
he could get his 40001. per annum settled before he do go. 
To White-fryars, and saw the “ Bondman’””* acted; an ex- 
cellent play, and well done. But above all that I ever 
saw, Betterton do the Bondman the best. Sat up late, 
spending my thoughts how to get money in my great 
expense at the Coronacion, against which all provide, 
and scaffolds setting up in every street. I had many 
designs in my head to get some, but know not which will 
take. 

2d. After dinner I went to the Theatre, where I found 
so few people (which is strange, and the reason I do not 
know) that I went out again, and so to Salisbury Court, 
where the house as full as could be; and it seems it was 
a new play, “The Qucene’s Maske,’ wherein there are 
some good humours: among others, a good jeer to the 
old story of the Siege of Troy, making it to be a common 
country tale. But above all it was strange to see so little 
a boy as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest 
parts in it. 


*By Massinger. 
2“ T ove’s Mistress, or The Queen’s Masque,” by T. Heywood, 


158 DIARY OF [sth March, 
3d. (Lord’s day.) Mr. Woodcocke’ preached at our church 


a very good sermon upon the imaginacions of the thoughts 
of man’s heart being only evil. To my Lord’s, who comes 
in late, and tells us how news is come to-day of Mazarin’s 
being dead,” which is very great news, and of great conse- 
quence. I lay to-night with Mr. Shepley here, because of 
my Lord’s going to-morrow. 

4th. My Lord went this morning on his journey to 
Hinchingbroke, Mr. Parker with him; the chief business 
being to look over and determine how, and in what manner, 
his great work of building shall be done. Before his going 
he did give me some jewells to keep for him, viz. that that 
the King of Sweden did give him, with the King’s own 
picture in it, most excellently done; and a brave George, all 
of diamonds, and this with the greatest expressions of love 
and confidence that I could imagine or hope for, which is a 
very great joy to me. 

8th. All the morning at the office. At noon, Sir Williara 
Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I by coach to the Tower, to 
Sir John Robinson’s,’ to dinner; where great good cheer. 
High company; among others the Duchess of Albemarle,* 
who is ever a plain, homely dowdy. After dinner, to drink 
all the afternoon. Towards night the Duchess and _ ladies 
went away. Then we set to it again till it was very late; 
and at last come in Sir William Wale,’ almost fuddled; and 
because I was set between him and another, only to keep 
them from talking and spoiling the company (as we did to 
others), he fell out with the Lieutenant of the Tower; but 
with much ado we made him understand his error, and then 
all quiet. I was much contented to ride in such state into 
the Towre, and be received among such high company, while 
Mr. Mount, my Lady Duchess’s gentleman-usher, stood 
waiting at table, whom I ever thought a man so much above 
me in all respects: also to hear the discourse of so many 
high Cavaliers of things past. It was a great content and 
joy to me. 


1Thomas Woodcock, afterwards ejected from St. Andrew’s, Under- 
shaft. ? Cardinal Mazarin died 27th February, 1660-1. 


% Lieutenant of that fortress. 
4 Anne Clarges. See Feb. 12, 1659-60, and note. 
5 Alderman and Colonel of the red regiment of Trainbands. 


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9th. To my Lord’s, where we found him lately come from 
Hinchingbroke. I staid and dined with him. He took me 
aside, and asked me what the world spoke of the King’s 
marriage, which I answering as one that knew nothing, he 
enquired no further of me. But I do perceive by it that 
there is something in it that is ready to come out that the 
world knows not of yet. 

10th. (Lord’s day.) Heard Mr. Mills in the morning, a 
good sermon. Dined at home on a poor Lenten dinner of 
coleworts and bacon. In the afternoon again to church, 
and there heard one Castle, whom I knew of my year at 
Cambridge. He made a dull sermon. 

11th. After dinner I went to the Theatre, and there saw 
** Love’s Mistress” done by them, which I do not like in 
some things as well as their acting in Salisbury Court. My 
wife come home, and she had got her teeth new done by La 
Roche, and are indeed now pretty handsome, and I was 
much pleased with it. 

12th. To Guildhall, and there set my hand to the book 
before Colonel King for my sea-pay, and blessed be God! 
they have cast me at midshipman’s pay, which do make my 
heart very glad. 

13th. Early up in the morning to read “The Seaman’s 
Grammar and Dictionary ” I lately have got, which do please 
me exceedingly well. 

14th. To the Theatre, and there saw “ King and no 
King’ well acted. 

15th. This day my wife and Pall went to seee my Lady 
Kingston, her brother’s” lady. 

16th. To Whitefryers, and there saw “The Spanish Cu- 
rate,’”*® in which I had no great content. 

17th. (Lord’s day.) At church in the morning, a stranger 
preached a good, honest, and painful sermon. My wife 
and I dined upon a chine of beef at Sir W. Batten’s, so 
to church again. Then to supper at Sir W. B. again, 
where my wife by chance fell down and hurt her knees 
exceedingly. 


*By Beaumont and Fletcher. 

*This lady has not been identified. Balthazar St. Michael is the 
only brother of Mrs. Pepys, mentioned in the Diary. 

8A comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher. 


160 DIARY OF [22d March, 


18th. This morning early Sir William Batten went to 
Rochester, where he expects to be chosen Parliament-man. 
This day an ambassador from Florence was brought into the 
towne in state. Yesterday was said to be the day that the 
Princess Henrietta was to marry the Duke d’Anjou* in 
France. This day I found in the newes-booke that Roger 
Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place 
that we hear of to have made their choice yet. 

19th. Mr. Creed and I to White-fryars, where we saw 
“The Bondman ” acted most excellently, and though I have 
seen it often, yet I am every time more and more pleased 
with Betterton’s action. 

20th. To White Hall to Mr. Coventry, where I did some 
business with him, and so with Sir W. Pen (who I found 
with Mr. Coventry teaching of him the map to understand 
Jamaica). The great talk of the towne is the strange elec- 
tion that the City of London made yesterday for parliament- 
men; viz. Fowke, Love, Jones, and..... > men that so far 
from being episcopall, are thought to be Anabaptists; and 
chosen with a great deale of zeale, in spite of the other party 
that thought themselves so strong, calling out in the Hall, 
“No Bishops! no Lord Bishops!” It do make people to 
fear it may come to worse, by being an example to the 
country to do the same. And indeed the Bishops are so 
high that very few do love them. 

Qist. At noon dined at my Lord’s, who was very merry, 
and after dinner we sang and fiddled a great while. 
This day I saw the Florence Ambassador go to his audi- 
ence, the weather very foule, and yet he and his company 
very gallant. 

22d. About eight o’clock I got a horse-back, and my 
Lady and her two daughters and Sir W. Pen into coach, 
and so over London Bridge, and thence to Dartford. 
The day very pleasant, though the way bad. Here we met 
with Sir W. Batten and some company along with him, 
who had assisted him in his election at Rochester; and so 
we dined, and were very merry. At five o’clock we set out 
again in a coach home, and were very merry all the way. 
At Deptford we met with Mr. Newborne, and some other 


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friends and their wives in a coach to meet us, and so 
they went home with us, and at Sir W. Batten’s we supped 
and then to bed, my head aching mightily through the wine 
that I drank to-day. 

23d. To the Red Bull* (where I had not been since plays 
come up again) up to the tireing-room, where strange the 
confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting 
themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very 
poore, and the actors but common fellows. At last into 
the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than 
myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And 
the play, which is called “ All’s Lost but Lust,’ poorly 
done; and with so much disorder, among others, in the 
musique-room, the boy that was to sing a song, not singing 
it right, his master fell about his eares and beat him so, 
that it put the whole house into an uprore. Met my uncle 
Wight, and with him Lieutenant-Colonel Baron,’ who told 
us how Crofton,* the great Presbyterian minister that 
had preached so highly against Bishops, is clapped up this 
day in the Towre, which do please some, and displease 
others exceedingly. 

24th. (Lord’s day.) My wife and I to church. With Sir 
W. Batten and my Lady to dinner, where very merry, and 
then to church again, where Mr. Mills made a good sermon. 

25th. (Lady day.) In the morning some workmen to 
begin of making of me a new pair of stairs up out of my 
parlour, which, with other work that I have to do, I doubt will 
keep me this two months, and so long I shall be all in dirt; 


1The Red Bull was in St. John’s Street, Clerkenwell; but of an in- 
ferior rank to the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres, and is described as 
— “that degenerate stage, 
Where none of the unturn’d kennel can rehearse 
A line of serious sense.” 


See ante, 4th August, 1660. 

7A tragedy, by W. Rowley. 

* Probably Argal Baron, of Croydon, Lieutenant-Governor of Wind- 
sor Castle, and said to have been a distinguished Royalist. 

‘Zachary Crofton, ejected from the curacy of St. Botolph’s, Aldgate, 
for nonconformity. He was a native of Ireland; and, according to 
Baxter, a quick and warm, but upright man. He was set at liberty after 
a long confinement, and again imprisoned in Cheshire; and, at length, 
returning to London, kept a school in Aldgate parish till his death, 

VOL, I. M 


162 DIARY OF [27th March, 


but the work do please me very well. Come Mr. Salisbury 
to see me, and shewed me a face or two of his paynting, and 
indeed I perceive that he will be a great master. I took 
him to Whitehall with me by water, but he could not by 
any means be moved to go through the bridge, and we were 
fain to go round by the Old Swan. To my Lord’s, and 
there I shewed him the King’s picture, which he intends to 
copy out in little. After that, I and Captain Ferrers to 
Salisbury Court by water, and saw part of the ‘‘ Queene’s 
Maske.” The. Turner in a great chafe, about being disap- 
pointed of a room to stand in at the Coronacion. Home- 
wards, and took up a boy that had a lanthorne, that was 
picking up of rags, and got him to light me home, and had 
great discourse with him how he could get sometimes three or 
four bushells of rags in a day, and got 3d. a bushel for them, 
and many other discourses, what and how many ways there 
are for poor children to get their livings honestly. 

26th. This is my great day that three years ago I was 
cut of the stone, and, blessed be God, I do yet find myseli 
very free from pain again. To my father’s, where Mrs. 
Turner, The. Joyce, Mr. Morrice, Mr. Armiger, Mr. 
Pierce the surgeon, and his wife, my father and mother, 
and myself and my wife. Very merry at dinner: among 
other things, because Mrs. Turner and her company eat 
no flesh this Lent, and I had a great deal of good flesh, 
which made their mouths water. To Salisbury Court, and 
I and my wife sat in the pitt, and saw “ The Bondman ” done 
to admiration. 

27th. Up early. My brother Tom comes to me, and I 
looked over my old clothes, and did give him a suit of 
black stuff clothes, and a hat and some shoes. Sir G. 
Carteret comes, and I did get him to promise me some 
money upon a bill of exchange, whereby I shall secure 
myself of 60J. At noon I found my stairs quite broke 
down, that I could not get up but by a ladder. To the 
Dolphin to a dinner of Mr. Harris’s, where Sir Williams 
both, and my Lady Batten,’ and her two daughters, and 
other company, where a great deal of mirth, and there staid 
till eleven o’clock at night; and in our mirth I sang and 
sometimes fiddled, (there being a noise of fiddlers there) 

1See ante, Nov. 26, 1660. 


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and at last we fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did 
in my life, which I did wonder to see myself to do. At 
last, we made Mingo, Sir W. Batten’s black, and Jack, Sir 
W. Pen’s, dance, and it was strange how the first did dance 
with a great deal of seeming skill. 

28th. I went to Sir Robert Slingsby (he being newly 
maister of that title by being a Barronett), to discourse 
about Mr. Creed’s accounts to be made up; and from thence 
by coach to my cozen, Thomas Pepys, to borrow 1000l. for 
my Lord. Then with Mr. Shepley to the Theatre, and saw 
* Rollo ’” ill acted. 

81st. (Sunday.) At church, where a stranger preached 
like a fool. Dined with my wife, staying at home, she being 
unwilling to dress herself, the house being all dirty. 

April Ist. To Whitefryars, and there saw part of “ Rule 
a Wife, and have a Wife,” which I never saw before, but do 
not like it. 

29d. To St. James’s Park, where I saw the Duke of York 
playing at Pelemele,’ the first time that ever I saw the 
sport. Then to my Lord’s, where I dined with my Lady, 
and after we had dined, in comes my Lord and Ned Picker- 
ing hungry, and there was not a bit of meat left in the 
house, the servants having eat up all, at which my Lord 
was very angry, and at last got something dressed. So to 
White-fryars, and saw “ The Little Thiefe,’’* which is & very 
merry and pretty play, and the little boy do very well. 
Then to the Dolphin to Sir W. Batten, and Pen, and other 


1 Rollo, Duke of Normandy,” by John Fletcher. 


?By John Fletcher. 


3 A Pele Mele was made at the further end of St. James’s Park, 
which was made for His Majesty to play, being a very princely play.” 
—Rugge. It is derived from paille maille, French; at which word 
Cotgrave thus describes the game:—‘ A game, wherein a round box 
bowle is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing, at 
either end of an alley, one), which he that can do at the fewest blows, 
or at the number agreed on, wins.” In France, it was the common 
appellation of those places where the game was practised. “As soon as 
the weather and my leisure permit, you shall have the account you desire 
of our Paille-Mailles, which are now only three,—viz., the Thuilleries, 
the Palais Royal, and the Arsenal.”—Letter of Sir Richard Browne, 


_ Addit. MSS. No. 15,857, fol. 149, in British Museum. 


*“Night Walker, or Little Thief,” by John Fletcher and James 
Shirley. 


164 DIARY OF ) [7th April, 


company; among others Mr. Delabar; where strange how 
these men, who at other times are all wise men, do now, in 
their drink, betwitt* and reproach one another with their 
former conditions, and their actions as in public concerns, 
till I was ashamed to see it. 

3d. Up among my workmen, my head akeing all day 
from last night’s debauch. At noon dined with Sir W. 
Batten and Pen, who would have me drink two good 
draughts of sack to-day, to cure me of my last night’s 
disease,” which I thought strange, but I think find it true. 
I hear that the Dutch have sent the King a great present 
of money, which we think will stop the match with Portu- 
gall; and judge this to be the reason that our so great 
haste in sending the two ships to the East Indys is also 
stayed. 

5th. Up among my workmen and so to the office, and 
then to Sir William Pen’s, with the other Sir William, and 
Sir John Lawson to dinner, and after that, with them to Mr. 
Lucy’s, a merchant, where much good company, and there 
drank a great deal of wine, and in discourse fell to talk of 
the weight of people, which did occasion some wagers, and 
where among others I won half a piece to be spent.- Then 
home, and at night to Sir W. Batten’s, and there very merry 
with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present life I 
lead. Home and to bed. 

6th. Among other things met with Mr. Townsend, who 
told of his mistake the other day, to put both his legs 
through one of his knees of his breeches, and went so all 
day. Creed and I to Salisbury Court, and there saw “ Love’s 
Quarrell”’ acted the first time, but I do not like the design 
nor words. 

th. (Lord’s day.) All the morning at home, making up 
my accounts (God forgive me!) to give up to my Lord this 
afternoon. Then put in at Paul’s, where I saw our 
minister, Mr. Mills, preaching before my Lord Mayor. 
To White Hall, and there I met with Dr. Fuller® of 
Twickenham, newly come from Ireland; and took him to 


1To upbraid. 

? Hence the proverb, “ Take a hair of the dog that bit you.” 

3 William Fuller, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was a schoolmaster at 
Twickenham during the Rebellion; and at the Restoration became 


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my Lord’s, where he and I dined; and he did give my 
Lord and me a good account of the condition of Ireland, 
and how it come to pass, through the joyning of the Fana- 
tiques and the Presbyterians, that the latter and the former 
are in their declaration put together under the names of 
Fanatiques. After dinner, my Lord and I and Mr. Shep- 
ley did look over our accounts, and settle matters of 
money between us; and my Lord did tell me much of 
his mind about getting money, and other things of his 
family, &c. 

8th. About eight o’clock, we took barge at the Tower, 
Sir William Batten and his lady, Mrs. Turner, Mr. Fowler, 
and I. <A very pleasant passage, and so to Gravesend, 
where we dined, and from thence a coach took them, and 
me, and Mr. Fowler, with some others, come from Rochester 
to meet us, on horseback. At Rochester, where alight at 
Mr. Alcock’s, and there drank, and had good sport, with his 
bringing out so many sorts of cheese. Then to the Hill- 
house at Chatham, where I never was before, and I found a 
pretty pleasant house, and am pleased with the armes that 
hang up there. Here we supped very merry, and late to 
bed; Sir William telling me that old Edgeborrow, his pre- 
decessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me 
somewhat afraid, but not so much as, for mirth sake, I did 
seem. So to bed in the Treasurer’s chamber. 

9th. Lay and slept well till three in the morning, and 
then waking, and by the light of the moon I saw my pillow 
(which overnight I flung from me) stand upright, but, not 
bethinking myself what it might be, I was a little afraid, but 
sleep overcome all, and so lay till nigh morning, at which 
time I had a candle brought me, and a good fire made, and 
in general it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here 
to see how I am respected and honoured by all people; and 
I find that I begin to know now how to receive so much 
reverence, which at the beginning, I could not tell how to 
do. Sir William and I by coach to the dock, and there 
viewed all the storehouses, and the old goods that are this 
day to be sold, which was a great pleasure to me, and so back 
again by coach home, where we had a good dinner, and 


Dean of St. Patrick’s, and, in 1663, Bishop of Limerick; from which 
See, in 1667, he was translated to Lincoln. Ob. 1675. 


166 DIARY OF [10th April, 


among other strangers that come, there was Mr. Hempson 
and his wife, a pretty woman, and speaks Latin; Mr. Allen, 
and two daughters of his, both very tall, and the youngest* 
very handsome, so much as I could not forbear to love her 
exceedingly, having, among other things, the best hand that 
ever I saw. After dinner, we went to fit books and things 
(Tom Hater having this morning come to us) for the sale, 
by an inch of candle, and very good sport we and the ladies 
that stood by had, to see the people bid. Among other 
things sold there was all the State’s armes,” which Sir W. 
Batten bought; intending to set up some of the images in 
his garden, and the rest to burn on the Coronacion night. 
The sale being done, the ladies and I, and Captain Pitt, and 
Mr. Castle took barge, and down we went to see the 
Sovereigne, which we did, taking great pleasure therein, 
singing all the way, and, among other pleasures, I put my 
Lady, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Hempson, and the two Mrs. Allens, 
into the lanthorn, and I went in and kissed them, demanding 
it as a fee due to a principall officer, with all which we were 
exceeding merry, and drunk some bottles of wine, and neat’s 
tongue, &c. Then back again home, and so supped, and, 
after much mirth, to bed. 

10th. In the morning to see the Dock-houses. First, 
Mr. Pett’s, the builder, and there was very kindly received, 
and among other things he did offer my Lady Batten a 
parrot, the best I ever saw, that knew Mingo so soon as it 
saw him, having been bred formerly in the house with them; 
but for talking and singing I never heard the like. My 
Lady did accept of it. Then to see Commissioner Pett’s 
house, he and his family being absent, and here I wondered 
how my Lady Batten walked up and down with curious 
looks to see how neat and rich everything is, and indeed 
both the house and garden is most handsome, saying that 
she would get it, for it belonged formerly to the Surveyor 
of the Navy. Then on board the Prince, now in the dock, 
and indeed it has one and no more rich cabins for carved 
work, but no gold in her. After that, back home, and there 
eat a little dinner. Then to Rochester, and there saw the 


1 Rebecca, who afterwards married Lieutenant Jewkes. See Diary 
Ist April, 1667. 
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Cathedrall, which is now fitting for use, and the organ then 
a-tuning. Then away thence, observing the great doors of 
the church, as they say, covered with the skins of the 
Danes. And also had much mirth at a tombe. So to the 
Salutacione tavern, where Mr. Alcock and many of the 
towne come and entertained us with wine and oysters and 
other things, and hither come Sir John Minnes to us, who 
is come to-day from London to see “ the Henery,” in which 
he intends to ride as Vice-Admiral in the narrow seas all 
this summer. Here much mirth, but I was a little troubled 
to stay too long, because of going to Hempson’s, which after- 
wards we did, and found it in all things a most pretty house, 
and rarely furnished, only it had a most ill accesse on all 
sides to it, which is a greatest fault that, I think, can be in 
a house. Here we had, for my sake, two fiddles, the one a 
base viall, on which he that played, played well some lyra 
lessons, but both together made the worst musique that ever 
I heard. We had a fine collacion, but I took little pleasure 


1 Traditions similar to that at Rochester, here alluded to, are to be found 
in other places in England. Sir Harry Englefield, in a communication 
made to the Society of Antiquaries, July 2, 1789, called their attention 
to the curious popular tale preserved in the village of Hadstock, 
Essex, that the door of the church had been covered with the skin of a 
Danish pirate, who had plundered the church. At Copford, in the 
same county, Sir Harry remarked that an exactly similar tradition 
existed. At Worcester, likewise, it was asserted that the north doors 
of the cathedral had been covered with the skin of a person who had 
sacrilegiously robbed the high altar. The doors have been renewed, 
but the original woodwork remains in the crypt, and portions of skin 
may still be seen under the ironwork with which the doors are 
clamped. The date of these doors appears to be the latter part of the 
fourteenth century, the north porch having been built about 1385. 
Portions of this supposed human skin, from each of the three places 
above mentioned, have recently been obtained, and submitted to one 
of our most skilful comparative anatomists, Mr. John Quequett, 
Curator of the Museum of the College of Surgeons, who, by aid of a 
powerful microscope, has ascertained, beyond question, that in each of 
the three cases the skin is human; and that, in the instance of Had- 
stock, it was the skin of a fair-haired person—a fact consistent with 
the tale of its Danish origin. A portion of the Worcester skin is to 
be found in the collection of Worcestershire curiosities, bequeathed 
by Dr. Prattinton to the Society of Antiquaries.—Communicated by 
Albert Way, Esq., F.S.A. See also the Appendix for further parti- 
culars, 


168 DIARY OF [11th April, 


in that, for the illness of the musique, and for the intentnesse 
of my mind upon Mrs. Rebecca Allen. After we had done 
eating, the ladies went to dance, and among the men we had, 
I was forced to dance, too; and did make an ugly shift. 
Mrs. R. Allen danced very well, and seems the _ best 
humoured woman that ever I saw. About nine o’clock Sir 
William and my Lady went home, and we continued dancing 
an houre or two, and so broke up very pleasant and merry, 
and so walked home, I leading Mrs. Rebecca, who seemed, 
I know not why, in that and other things, to be desirous 
of my favours, and would in all things show me respects. 
Going home, she would needs have me sing, and I did pretty 
well, and was highly esteemed by them. So to Captain 
Allen’s (where we were last night, and heard him play on 
the harpsichon, and I find him to be a perfect good musician), 
and there, having no mind to leave Mrs. Rebecca, I did 
what with talk and singing (her father and I), Mrs. Turner 
and I staid there till two o’clock in the morning, and was 
most exceeding merry, and I had the opportunity of kissing 
Mrs. Rebecca very often. 

11th. At two o’clock, with very great mirth, we went to 
our lodgings and to bed, and lay till seven, and then called up 
by Sir W. Batten; so I rose, and we did some business, and 
then come Captain Allen, and he and I withdrew, and sang 
a song or two, and among others, took great pleasure in 
“Goe and bee hanged, that’s twice good bye.” ‘The young 
ladies come too, and so I did again please myself with Mrs. 
Rebecca; and about nine o’clock, after we had breakfasted, 
we sett forth for London, and indeed I was a little troubled 
to part with Mrs. Rebecca, for which God forgive me. ‘Thus 
we went away through Rochester. We baited at Dartford, 
and thence to London, but of all the journeys that ever I 
made, this was the merriest, and I was in a strange moode 
for mirth. Among other things, I got my Lady to let her 
mayd, Mrs. Anne, to ride all the way on horseback, and she 
rides exceeding well; and so I called [her] my clerk, that 
she went to wait upon me. I met two little schoolboys 
going with pichers of ale to their schoolmaster to break up 
against Easter, and I did drink of some of one of them, and 
give him two-pence. By and by, we come to two little girls 
keeping cowes, and I saw one of them very pretty, so I had 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 169 


a mind to make her aske my blessing, and telling her that I 
was her godfather, she asked me innocently whether I was 
not Ned Warding, and I said that I was, so she kneeled 
down, and very simply called, “ Pray, godfather, pray to 
God to bless me,” which made us very merry, and I gave 
her two-pence. In several places, I asked women whether 
they would sell me their children, but they denied me all, 
but said they would give me one to keep for them, if I 
would. Mrs. Anne and I rode under the man that hangs 
upon Shooter’s Hill, and a filthy sight it was to see how his 
flesh is shrunk to his bones. So home, and I found all well, 
and a good deal of work done since I went. So to bed very 
sleepy for last night’s work, concluding that it is the 
pleasantest journey in all respects that ever I had in my 
life. 

12th. Up among my workmen. Dined with Sir W. Batten, 
all fish dinner, it being Good Friday. Then into the City, 
and saw in what forwardness all things are for the Coro- 
nacion, which will be very magnificent. Home, and to my 
chamber, to set down, in my diary, all my late journey, 
which I do with great pleasure; and while I am now writ- 
ing, comes one with a tickett to invite me to Captain Robert 
Blake’s buriall, for whose death I am very sorry, and do 
much wonder at it, he being a little while since a very likely 
man to live as any I knew. Since my going out of town, 
there is one Alexander. Rope taken, and sent to the Counter, 
by Sir Thomas Allen, for counterfeiting my hand to a ticket, 
and we this day, at the office, have given order to Mr. Smith 
to prosecute him. 

13th. To White Hall by water from Towre-wharfe, where 
we could not pass the ordinary way, because they were 
mending of the great stone steps against the Coronacion. 
Met my Lord with the Duke; and after a little talk with 
him, I went to the Banquet-house, and there saw the King 
heale, the first time that ever I saw him do it; which he did 
with great gravity, and it seemed to me to be an ugly office 
and a simple one. To the buriall of Captain Robert Blake, 
at Wapping, and there had each of us a ring, but it being 
dirty, we could not go to church with them. Sir W. Batten 
this day gone with his lady to Walthamstowe to keep 
Faster. 


170 DIARY OF [16th April, 


14th. (Easter, Lord’s day.) In the morning heard Mr. 
Jacomb,' at Ludgate, upon these words, “‘ Christ loved you, 
and therefore let us love one another,” and made a gracy 
sermon, like a Presbyterian. After dinner, to the Temple, 
and there heard Dr. Griffith,” a good sermon for the day; so 
with Mr. Moore (whom I met there) to my Lord’s, and 
there he shewed me a copy of my Lord Chancellor’s patent 
for Earle, and I read the preamble, which is very short, 
modest, and good. Here my Lord saw us, and spoke to me 
about getting Mr. Moore to come and governe his house 
while he goes to sea, which I promised him to do, and did 
afterwards speak to Mr. Moore, and he is willing. Hearing 
that Mr. Barnwell is come, with some of my Lord’s little 
children, yesterday to town, to see the Coronacion, I went 
and found them at the Goate, at Charing Cross, and there I 
went and drank with them a little while, whom I found in 
very good health, and very merry. 

15th. A very foule morning for the King and Lords 
to go to Windsor. Home with Sir R. Slingsby, and dined 
with him, and had a very good dinner. His lady* seems 
a good woman, and very desirous they were to hear this 
noon by the post how the election has gone at New- 
castle, wherein he is concerned, but the letters are not 
come yet. 

16th. So soon as word was brought me that Mr. Coventry 
was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him, and 


1Thomas Jacomb, of Burton Lazers, Leicestershire, entered at Mag- 
dalen Hall, Oxford, in 1640; but removing to Cambridge on the 
breaking out of the Rebellion, he obtained a Fellowship at Trinity Col- 
lege, in the place of a royalist ejected, and had the degree of M.A. con- 
ferred on him. He afterwards became rector of St. Martin’s-infra- 
Ludgate, in London; and was put out for nonconformity in 1662, 
being then D.D. He subsequently followed the trade of conventicling, 
which brought him into trouble; and he died March 27, 1687, in the 
house of the Countess of Exeter, to whom he was domestic chaplain. 
Abridged from Kennett’s Register. 


? Matthew Griffith, D.D., rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish 
Street, and preacher at the Temple. He was an Episcopalian, and 
author of several printed sermons. He died in 1665. 


® Klizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Radclyffe, of Dilston, Northum- 
berland, and widow of Sir William Fenwick, Bart., of Meldon. Sir R. 
Slingsby’s first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Robert 
Brooke, of Newcells. 


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found him reading of the psalms in short-hand (which he is 
now busy about), and had good sport about the long marks 
that are made there for sentences in divinity, which he is 
never like to make use of. Then we put off for Deptford, 
where we went on board the King’s pleasure-boat that Com- 
missioner Pett is making, and indeed it will be a most pretty 
thing. By the way they would have me sing, which I did 
to Mr. Coventry. 

17th. By land, and saw the arches,’ which are now almost 
done, and are very fine, and I saw the picture of the ships 
and other things this morning, set up before the East Indy 
House, which are well done. Comes Mr. Allen, of Chatham, 
and I took him to the Mitre, and there did drink with him. 
His daughters” are to come to town to-morrow, but I know 
not whether I shall see them. Talk of Mr. Warren’s® being 
knighted by the King, and Sir W. B. seemed to be very 
much incensed against him. 

18th. Up with my workmen, and then, about nine o’clock, 
took horse with both the Sir Williams, for Walthamstow, 
and there we found my Lady and her daughters all;* and 
a pleasant day it was, and all things else, but that my Lady 
was in a bad moode, which we were troubled at, and had she 
been noble, she would not have been so with her servants, 
when we come thither, and this Sir W. Pen took notice of, 
as well as I. After dinner, we all went to the Church-stile,® 
and there eate and dranke, and I was as merry as I could 
counterfeit myself to be. Then, it raining hard, homewards 
again, and in our way met with two country fellows upon 
one horse, which I did, without much ado, give the way to, but 
Sir W. Pen would not, but struck them, and they him, and 


1 Erecting in honour of the Coronation. 

? See ante, April 9, 1661. 

3 See ante, Dec. 29, 1660, and note. 

*See ante, March 27, 1661. 

5In an old book of accounts belonging to Warrington Parish, the 
following minute occurs:—“ Noy. 5, 1688. Payd for drink at the 
Church-Steele, 13s.;” and in 1732, “it is ordered that hereafter no 
money be spent on ye 5th of November, or any other state day, on the 
parish account, either at the Church-Stile, or at any other place.”— 
Gent Mag., Nov. 1852, p. 442. Thus the original reading is confirmed; 
for it had been suggested in the Gent. Mag. that this should be 
Church ale. 


172 DIARY OF [20th April, 


so passed away, but they, giving him some high words, he went 
back again, and struck them off their horse, in a simple fury, 
and without much honour, in my mind, and so come away. 

19th. So foule that I could not go to White Hall to see 
the Knights of the Bath made to-day, which do trouble 
me mightily. 

20th. Comes my boy to tell me that the Duke of York 
had sent for all the principal officers, &c., to come to him 
to-day. So I went by water to Mr. Coventry’s, and there 
staid and talked a good while with him till all the rest come. 
We went up and saw the Duke dress himself, and in his 
night habitt he is a very plain man." Then he sent us to 
his closett, where we saw among other things two very 
fine chests, covered with gold and Indian varnish, given 
him by the East Indy Company of Holland. The Duke comes ; 
and after he had told us that the fleet was designed for 
Algiers (which was kept from us till now), we did advise 
about many things as to the fitting of the fleet, and so 
went away. After that, to my Lord’s, where Sir W. Pen 
came to me, and dined with my Lord. After dinner, he 
and others that dined there went away; and then my Lord 
looked upon his pages’ and footmen’s liverys which are 
come home to-day, and will be handsome, though not gaudy. 
Then with my Lady and my Lady Wright to White Hall; 
and in the Banqueting-house saw the King create my Lord 
Chancellor, and several others, Earles,* and Mr. Crewe and 
several others, Barons;* the first being led up by Heralds 
and five old Earles to the King, and there the patent is 


1“ No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre,” a saying of the 
Prince de Condé. 


2 Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, and Earl of Clarendon, extinct; 
Arthur (Lord Capel), Viscount Malden, and Earl of Essex; Thomas 
(Lord Brudenell), Earl of Cardigan; Charles Howard, Lord Dacre, 
Viscount Howard of Morpeth, and Earl of Carlisle; Sir Arthur An- 
nesley (Viscount Valentia), Lord Annesley, and Earl of Angiesea; 
Sir John Granville, Viscount Lansdowne, and Earl of Bath, extinct. 


3 John Crewe, Baron Crewe of Stene, extinct; Denzil Holles, Baron 
Holles of Ifield, extinct; Sir Frederic Cornwallis, Bart., Baron Corn- 
Wallis of Eye, ewtinct; Sir Horace Townshend, Bart., Baron Towns- 
hend of King’s Lynn (merged in the Marquisate); Sir A. A. Cooper, 
Bart., Baron Ashley of Winborne, St. Giles (merged in the Earldom 
of Shaftesbury); Sir George Booth, Bart., Baron Delamere of Dun- 
ham Massey, ewxtinct. 


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read, and the King puts on his vest, and sword, and coro- 
nett, and gives him the patent. And then he kisseth the 
King’s hand, and rises and stands covered before the King. 
And the same for each Baron, only he is led up by three of 
the old Barons. And they are girt with swords before they 
go to the King. That being done (which was very pleasant 
to see their habitts), I carried my Lady back, and there I 
found my Lord angry, for that his page had let my Lord’s 
new beaver hat be changed for an old hat: then I went 
away, and with Mr. Creed to the Exchange, and bought 
some things, as gloves, and bandstrings, &c. So back to the 
Cockpitt; and there, by the favour of one Mr. Bowman, he 
and I got in, and there saw the King and Duke of York 
and his Duchesse (which is a plain woman, and like her 
mother, my Lady Chancellor.) And so saw “ The Humer- 
some Lieutenant ’* acted before the King, but not very 
well done. But my pleasure was great to. see the manner 
of it, and so many great beauties, but above all, Mrs. Palmer, 
with whom the King do discover a great deal of familiarity. 
So Mr. Creed and I (the play being done) went to Mrs. 
Harper’s, and there sat and drank, it being about twelve at 
night. The ways being so dirty, and stopped up with the 
rayles which are this day set up in the streets, I could not 
go home, but went with him to his lodging at Mr. Ware’s, 
and there lay all night. 

21st. (Lord’s day.) In the morning we were troubled 
to hear it rain as it did, because of the great show to- 
morrow. Dined with Dr. Thomas Pepys* and Dr. Fayre- 
brother; and all our talk about to-morrow’s show, and our 
trouble that it is like to be a wet day. All the way is so 
thronged with people to see the triumphal arches, that I 
could hardly pass for them. Home, people being at church, 
and I got home unseen, and so up to my chamber, and 
sat down these last five or six days’ Diarys. 

22d. The King’s going from the Tower to White Hall. 
Up early and made myself as fine as I could, and put on 
my velvet coat, the first day that I put it on, though made 
half a year ago. And being ready, Sir W. Batten, my 
Lady, and his two daughters, and his son and wife, and Sir 


1“ The Humourous Lieutenant,” a tragi-comedy, by John Fletcher. 
* Doctor in Civil Law. 


174 DIARY OF [22d April, 
W. Pen and his son and I, went to Mr. Young’s, the flag- 


maker in Corn-hill; and there we had a good room to our- 
selves, with wine and good cake, and saw the show very 
well. In which it is impossible to relate the glory of this 
day, expressed in the clothes of them that rid, and their 
horses and horse-clothes. Among others, my Lord Sand- 
wich’s embroidery and diamonds were not ordinary among 
them. The Knights of the Bath was a brave sight of 
itself; and their Esquires, among which Mr. Armiger was 
an Esquire to one of the Knights. Remarquable were the 
two men that represent the Dukes of Normandy and Aqui- 
taine. The Bishops come next after Barons, which is the 
higher place; which makes me think that the next Parlia- 
ment they will be called to the House of Lords. My Lord 
Monk rode bare after the King, and led in his hand a 
spare horse, as being Master of the Horse. The King, in 
a most rich embroidered suit and cloak looked most noble. 
Wadlow,' the vintner, at the Devil, in Fleet Street, did lead 
a fine company of soldiers, all young, comely men, in white 
doublets. There followed the Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. 
Carteret, a company of men all like Turkes,? but I know 
not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, and 
the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave 
show, and the ladies out of the windows. So glorious was 
the show with gold and silver, that we were not able to 
look at it; our eyes at last being so much overcome. Both 
the King and the Duke of York took notice of us, as they 
saw us at the window. In the evening, by water, to White 
Hall to my Lord’s, and there I spoke with my Lord. He 
talked with me about his suit, which was made in France, 
and cost him 200I., and very rich it is in embroidery. The 
show being ended, Mr. Young did give us a dinner, at 
which we very merry, and pleased above imagination at 
what we have seen. Sir W. Batten going home, he and I 
called, and drunk some wine, and laid our wager about 
my Lady Faulconbridge’s name, which he says not to be 


*The Ashmolean Museum Catalogue mentions “Eight verses upon 
Simon Wadloe, Vintner, dwelling att ye sign of ye Devill and St. 
Dunstan.”—A pollo et Cohors Musarum, p. 54. 

*This company is represented in the curious contemporary picture 
by Stoop, now at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 175 


Mary,’ and so I won above 20s. So home, where Will and 
the boy staid, and saw the show upon Towre-hill, and Jane 
at T.. Pepys’s the Turner, and my wife at Charles Glasse- 
cocke’s in Fleet Street. 


CORONACON DAY. 


23d. About four I rose and got to the Abbey, where 
I followed Sir J. Denham, the surveyor, with some com- 
pany he was leading in. And with much ado, by the favour 
of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great scaffold 
across the North end of the Abbey, where with a great 
deal of patience I sat from past four till eleven before the 
King come in. And a great pleasure it was to see the 
Abbey raised in the middle, all covered with red, and a 
throne (that is, a chaire) and footstoole on the top of it; 
and all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very 
fiddlers, in red vests. At last comes in the Dean’® and 
Prebendaries of Westminster, with the Bishops, many of 
then in cloth of gold copes, and after them the Nobility, 
all in their Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent 
sight. Then the Duke and the King with a sceptre® (carried 
by my Lord Sandwich) and sword and wand before him, and 
the crowne too. The King in his robes, bare-headed, which 
was very fine. And after all had placed themselves, there 
was a sermon and the service; and then in the Quire at the 
high altar, the King passed through all the ceremonies 
of the Coronacon, which to my great grief I and most in the 
Abbey could not see. The crowne being put upon his head, a 
great shout begun, and he come forth to the throne, and there 
passed through more ceremonies: as taking the oath, and hay- 
ing things read to him by the Bishopp;* and his lords (who 
put on their caps’ as soon as the King put on his crowne) and 


1Mary, daughter of Oliver Cromwell, second wife of Thomas, second 
Viscount Falconberg, afterwards Earl of Falconberg. 

2 John Earle, S.T.P., in 1662 made Bishop of Worcester, and trans- 
lated to Salisbury the following year; and dying in 1665, was buried in 
the chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow. 

5A sceptre. It was St. Edward’s staff. 

‘Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, acting for Juxon, Archbishop 
of Canterbury, whose age and infirmities prevented him from attending. 

®As yet Barons had no coronet, A grant of that outward mark of 


176 DIARY OF [23d April 


bishops come, and kneeled before him. And three times the 
King at Armes’ went to the three open places” on the scaf- 
fold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason 
why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that 
now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also 
was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up 
and down by my Lord Cornwallis,’ of silver, but I could 
not come by any. But so great a noise that I could make 
but little of the musique; and, indeed, it was lost to every 
body. I went out a little while before the King had done 
all his ceremonies, and went round the Abbey to West- 
minster Hall, all the way within rayles, and 10,000 people 
with the ground covered with blue cloth; and scaffolds all 
the way. Into the Hall I got, where it was very fine with 
hangings and scaffolds one upon another full of brave ladies; 
and my wife in one little one, on the right hand. MHere I 
staid walking up and down, and at last upon one of the 
side stalls I stood and saw the King come in with all the 
persons (but the soldiers) that were yesterday in the caval- 
cade; and a most pleasant sight it was to see them in their 
several robes. And the King come in with his crowne on, 
and his sceptre in his hand, under a canopy borne up by 
six silver staves, carried by Barons of the Cinque Ports, 
and little bells at every end. And after a long time, he 
got up to the farther end, and all set themselves down at 
their several tables; and that was also a brave sight: and 
the King’s first course carried up by the Knights of the 


dignity was made to them by Charles soon after his coronation. Eliza- 
beth had assigned coronets to Viscounts. 


1Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms. 
2 The south, west, and north sides. 


’ Sir Frederick Cornwallis, Baronet, had been created a Baron three 
days before the coronation. He was treasurer of His Majesty’s House- 
hold, and a Privy Councillor. He had married Elizabeth, daughter 
of John Ashburnham. His wife, therefore, and her brother John 
Ashburnham, were first cousins to Villiers Duke of Buckingham. 
Rugge states in July 1660, that “the King supped with Sir Frede- 
rick Cornwallis at Durham Yard, in the Strand.” He died in 
January, 1661-2, and was buried with his ancestors at Brome, on the 
18th. See post, 16th Jan. 1661-2. Collins and other writers errone- 
ously state his death to have occurred on the 31st. The medals which 
he received as his fee (nearly 100 in number) were carefully preserved 
in the family, and have been recently arranged, so as to form the setting 
of a large silver cup, at Audley End. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS iy 


Bath. And many fine ceremonies there was of the Heralds 
leading up people before him and bowing; and my Lord 
of Albemarle’s going to the kitchen and eating a bit of 
the first dish that was to go to the King’s table. But, 
above all, was these three Lords, Northumberland,’ and 
Suffolke,> and the Duke of Ormond,’ coming before the 
courses on horseback, and staying so all Bicradans time, and 
at last bringing up [Dymock,] the King’s champion,‘ all 
in armour on horseback, with his speare and targett car- 
ried before him. And a Herald’ proclaims * That if any 
dare deny Charles Stuart to be lawful King of England, 
here was a Champion that would fight with him;” and 
with these words, the Champion flings down his gauntlet, and 
all this he do three times in his going up towards the 
King’s table. To which, when he is come, the King drinks 
to him, and then sends him the cup which is of gold, 
and he drinks it off, and then rides back again with the 
cup in his hand. I went from table to table to see the 
Bishops and all others at their dinners, and was infinitely 
pleased with it. And at the Lord’s table I met with William 
Howe, and he spoke to my Lord for me, and he did give 
him four rabbits and a pullet, and so Mr. Creed and I got 
Mr. Minshell to give us some bread, and so we at a stall eat 
it, as everybody else did what they could get. I took a 
great deal of pleasure to go up and down, and look upon 
the ladies and to hear the musique of all sorts, but above 
all the 24 violins.© About six at night they had dined, 
and I went up to my wife. And strange it is to think, that 


1Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland, acting as Lord 
High Constable of England on this occasion. 

?James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk, acting as Earl Marshal of 
England. 

’ James Butler, first Duke of Ormond, Lord High Steward of Eng- 
land pro hdc vice. 

*Sir Edward Dymock, as Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, co. Lin- 
coln. This service was last performed by one of that family at the 
coronation of George IV., and with the coronation dinner has since 
been dispensed with. 

5’York Herald, George Owen, who, it will be seen, rescued the canopy 
from the valetaille. 

*See some congratulatory lines on the coronation, by Henry Bold, of 
New College, Oxford, in Somers’s Tracts, vol. vii. p. 514, Sir W. Scott’s 
edition. 


VOL. I. N 


178 DIARY OF [23d April, 


these two days have held up fair till now that all is done, 
and the King gone out of the Hall: and then it fell a- 
raining and thundering and lightening as I have not seen 
it do for some years: which people did take great notice 
of ;* God’s blessing of the work of these two days, which 
is a foolery to take too much notice of such things. I ob- 
served little disorder in all this, only the King’s footmen 
had got hold of the canopy, and would keep it from the 
Barons of the Cinque Ports,” which they endeavored to 
force from them again, but could not do it till my Lord 
Duke of Albemarle caused it to be put into Sir R. Pye’s 
hand till to-morrow to be decided. At Mr. Bowyer’s; a 
great deal of company, some I knew, others I did not. 
Here we staid upon the leads and below till it was late, ex- 


Baxter, in his Life, mentions this storm. “On April 23, was his 
Majesty’s coronation-day, the day being very serene and fair, till sud- 
denly in the afternoon, as they were returning from Westminster Hall, 
there was very terrible thunders when none expected it, which made me 
remember his father’s coronation, on which, being a boy at school, 
and having leave to play for the solemnity, an earthquake, about 
two o’clock in the afternoon, did affright the boys, and all the neigh- 
bourhood. JI intend no commentary on these, but only to relate the 
matter of fact.” 


* Bishop Kennett gives a somewhat fuller account of this unseemly 
broil:—“ No sooner had the aforesaid Barons brought up the King to 
the foot of the stairs in Westminster Hall, ascending to his throne, and 
turned on the left hand (towards their own table) out of the way, but 
the King’s footmen most insolently and violently seized upon the canopy, 
which the Barons endeavouring to keep and defend, were by their num- 
bers and strength dragged down to the lower end of the Hall, neverthe- 
less still keeping their hold; and had not Mr. Owen, York Herald, 
being accidentally near the Hall door; and seeing the contest, caused the 
same to be shut, the footmen had certainly carried it away by force. 
But in the interim also (speedy notice hereof having been given the 
King) one of the Querries were sent from him, with command to im- 
prison the footmen, and dismiss them out of his service, which put an 
end to the present disturbance. These footmen were also commanded 
to make their submission to the Court of Claims, which was accordingly 
done by them the 30th April following, and the canopy then delivered 
back to the said Barons.” Whilst this disturbance happened, the upper 
end of the first table, which had been appointed for the Barons of the 
Cinque Ports, was taken up by the Bishops, Judges, etc., probably 
nothing loth to take precedence of them; and the poor Barons, na- 
turally unwilling to lose their dinner, were necessitated to eat it at the 
bottom of the second table, below the Masters of Chancery and others 
of the long robe. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 179 


pecting to see the fire-works, but they were not performed 
to-night: only the City had a light like a glory round about 
it, with bonfires. At last I went to King Streete, and there 
sent Crockford to my father’s and my house, to tell them I 
could not come home to-night, because of the dirt, and a 
coach could not be had. And so I took my wife and Mrs. 
Frankleyn (who I profered the civility of lying with my 
wife, at Mrs. Hunt’s to-night) to Axe-yard, in which, at 
the further end, there were three great bonfires, and a great 
many gallants, men and women; and they laid hold of us, 
and would have us drink the King’s health upon our knees, 
kneeling upon a faggot, which we all did, they drinking to 
us one after another, which we thought a strange frolique; 
but these gallants continued there a great while, and I 
wondered to see how the ladies did tipple. At last, I sent 
my wife and her bedfellow to bed, and Mr. Hunt and I 
went in with Mr. Thornbury (who did give the company all 
their wine, he being yeoman of the wine-cellar to the King) ; 
and there, with his wife and two of his sisters, and some 
gallant sparks that were there, we drank the King’s health, 
and nothing else, till one of the gentlemen fell down stark 
drunk, and there lay; and I went to my Lord’s pretty well. 
But no sooner a-bed with Mr. Shepley but my head began 
to turn, and I to vomitt, and if ever I was foxed, it was 
now, which I cannot say yet, because I fell asleep, and 
slept till morning. Thus did the day end with joy every 
where; and blessed be God, I have not heard of any mis- 
chance to any body through it all, but only to Serjeant 
Glynne,’ whose horse fell upon him yesterday, and is like 
to kill him, which people do please themselves to see how 
just God is to punish the rogue at such a time as this: he 
being now one of the King’s Serjeants, and rode in the 
cavalcade with Maynard,’ to whom people wish the same 


1John Glynne had been Recorder of London; and during the Pro- 
tectorate, Chief Justice of the Upper Bench; nevertheless, he did 
Charles II. great service, and was in consequence knighted and appointed 
King’s Serjeant, and his son created a Baronet. Ob. 1666. 


?John Maynard, the eminent lawyer; made Serjeant to Cromwell 
in 1653, and afterwards King’s Serjeant by Charles II., who knighted 
him. In 1661 he was chosen Burgess for Berealston, and sat in every 
Parliament till the Revolution, for that borough, or Plymouth. In 
March, 1689, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Great 


nQ 


180 DIARY OF [30th April, 


fortune. There was also this night, in King Streete, a 
woman had her eye put out by a boy’s flinging a firebrand 
into the coach. Now, after all this, I can say, that, besides 
the pleasure of the sight of these glorious things, I may 
now shut my eyes against any other objects, nor for the 
future trouble myself to see things of state and showe, as 
being sure never to see the like again in this world. 

24th. Waked in the morning, with my head in a sad 
taking through the last night’s drink, which I am very 
sorry for; so rose, and went out with Mr. Creed to drink 
our morning draught, which he did give me in chocolate to 
settle my stomach. At night, set myself to write down 
these three day’s diary, and, while I am about it, I hear 
the noise of the chambers,’ and other things of the fire- 
works, which are now playing upon the Thames before the 
King; and I wish myself with them, being sorry not to see 
them. 

26th. At the office, having some thoughts to order my 
business so as to go to Portsmouth the next week with Sir 
Robert Slingsby. 

27th. Dined with my Lady. With Mr. Creed and 
Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see ‘ The Chances.” 

28th. (Lord’s day.) In the afternoon to church, where 
come Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Edward Pepys, and several 
other ladies, and so I went out of the Pewe into another. 
Sent for to my father’s, where my cozen Angier and his 
wife, of Cambridge, to whom I went, and was glad to see 
them, and sent for wine for them, and they supped with my 
father. 

30th. This morning my wife and I and Mr. Creed took 
coach, and in Fish Street took up Mr. Hater and his wife, 
who, through her maske, seemed at first to be an old 
woman, but afterwards I found her to be a very pretty, 
modest black woman. We got a small bait at Leatherhead, 
and so to Godlyman,’ where we lay all night; and were very 
merry, having this day no other extraordinary rencontre, 
but my hat falling off of my head at Newington into the 


Seal; and, soon resigning from infirmity, died 9th October, 1690, 
aged 88. ; 

Chamber, a species of great gun, 

By Beaumont and Fletcher. * Godalming. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 181 


water, by which it was spoiled and I ashamed of it. I am 
sorry that I was not at London, to be at Hide Parke to- 
morrow, among the great gallants and ladies, which will be 
very fine. 

May Ist. Up early, and baited at Petersfield, in the room 
which the King lay in lately at his being there. Here very 
merry, and played with our wives at bowles. Then we set 
forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seeming to me to be a 
very pleasant and strong place; and we lay at the Red 
Lyon, where Haselrigge and Scott and Walton did hold 
their councill, when they were here, against Lambert and 
the Committee of Safety. Several officers of the Yard come 
to see us to-night, and merry we were, but troubled to have 
no better lodgings. 

2d. Up, and Mr. Creed and I to walk round the town 
upon the walls. Then to our inne, and there all the officers 
of the Yard to see me with great respect, and I walked 
with them to the Dock, and saw all the stores, and much 
pleased with the sight of the place. Back, and brought 
them all to dinner with me, and treated them handsomely ; 
and so after dinner by water to the Yard, and there we 
made the sale of the old provisions. ‘Then we and our 
wives all to see the Montagu, which is a fine ship, and so to 
the town again by water, and then to see the room where 
the Duke of Buckingham was killed by Felton.* 

3d. Early to walk with Mr. Creed up and down the 
towne, and it was in his and some others’ thoughts to have 
got me made free of the town, but the Mayor was, it seems 
unwilling, and so they did not do it. Took coach to 
Petersfield, having nothing more of trouble in all my 
journey, but the exceeding unmannerly and _ epicure-like 
palate of Mr. Creed. Here my wife and I lay in the room 
the Queen lately lay, at her going into France. 

4th. Up in the morning, and took coach, and so to Gilford, 
where we lay at the Red Lyon, the best inne, and lay in 
the room the King lately lay in, where we had time to see 


1The house wherein the murder was committed in August, 1628, is 
situated at the upper end of the High Street, at Portsmouth, and its 
remains are now known as No. 10 in that street. It was occupied re- 
cently as a ladies’ school. A representation of the front of the house 
is given in Brayley’s Graphic Illustrator p. 240. 


182 DIARY OF [8th May, 


the Hospital, built by Archbishop Abbott, and the free 
schoole, and were civilly treated. by the Mayster. So to 
supper and to bed, being very merry about our discourse with 
the Drawers concerning the minister of the towne, with a 
red face and a girdle. 
5th. (Lord’s day.) Mr. Creed and I went to the red- 

faced Parson’s church, and heard a good sermon of him, 
better than I looked for. Anon we walked into the garden, 
and there played the fool a great while, trymg who of Mr. 
Creed or I could go best over the edge of an old fountaine 
well, and I won a quart of sack of him. Then to supper in 
the banquet-house, and there my wife and I did talk high, 
she against and I for Mrs. Pierce (that she was a beauty), 
till we were both angry. Then to walk in the fields, and so 
to our quarters, and to bed. 

6th. Up by four o’clock, and took coach, and so home. I 
hear to-night that the Duke of York’s son* is this day 
dead, which, I believe, will please everybody; and I hear 
that the Duke and his Lady themselves are not much 
troubled at it.” 

th. My Lady, I find, is, since my going, gone to the 
Wardrobe.* With Mr. Creed into London; stopped in our 
way by the City trayne-bands, who go in much solemnity 
and pomp this day to muster before the King and the Duke, 
and shops in the city are shut up everywhere this day. He 
carried me to an ordinary by the Old Exchange, where we 
come a little too late, but we had very good cheer for our 
18d. a-piece, and an excellent droll, too, my hoste, and his 
wife as fine a woman, and sung and played so well, that 
I staid a great while, and drunk a great deal of wine. 
To bed, having sent my Lord a letter to-night, to excuse 
myself for not going with him to-morrow to the Hope, 
whither he is to go to see in what condition the fleete 
is in. 

8th. Come my brother John to take his leave of me, he 


1Charles, Duke of Cambridge, born October 22, 1660, ob. May 5, 
1661. He was the first of eight children by Anne Hyde. 


* The legitimacy of the infant might have been questionable. See 
Oct. 7, and Dec. 16, 1660, and Feb. 23, 1660-61. 


’ZLord Sandwich’s official residence in Doctors’ Commons, now 
Wardrobe Place. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 183 


being to return to Cambridge. I did give him some good 
counsell and 20s. in money, and so he went away. At 
night comes my wife not well, from my father’s, having had 
a foretooth drawn out to-day, which do trouble me. To- 
day I received a letter from my uncle, to beg an old fiddle 
of me for Perkin, the miller, whose mill the wind hath 
lately broke down, and now he hath nothing to live by 
but fiddling, and he must need have it against Whitsun- 
tide to play to the country-girles; but it vexed me to 
see how my uncle writes to me, as if he were not able to 
buy him one. But I intend to-morrow to send him 
one. 

9th. With my Lord at his lodgings, and there being with 
him my Lord Chamberlain,’ I spoke for my old waterman 
Payne, to get into White’s place, who was waterman to my 
Lord Chamberlain, and is now to go master of the barge to 
my Lord to sea; and my Lord Chamberlain did promise 
that Payne should be entertained in White’s place with 
him. 

11th. To Graye’s Inn, and there to a barber’s, where I 
was trimmed, and had my haire cutt, in which I am lately 
become a little curious, finding that the length of it do be- 
come me very much. 

12th. (Lord’s day.) At the Savoy heard Dr. Fuller’ 
preach upon David’s words,’ “I will wait with patience all 
the days of my appointed time until my change comes ;” 
but methought it was a poor, dry sermon. And I am 
afraid my former high esteem of his preaching was more out 
of opinion than judgment. Met with Mr. Creed, with 
whom I went and walked in Graye’s-Inn-walks, and from 
thence to Islington, and there eate and drank at the house* 
my father and we were wont of old to go to; and after that 
walked homeward, and parted in Smithfield: and so I home, 
much wondering to see how things are altered with Mr. 


1The Earl of Manchester. 

2The Celebrated Thomas Fuller, D.D., the Church historian, and 
author of The Worthies of England, then lecturer at the Savoy. At his 
death, in August following, he was chaplain to the King, prebendary of 
Salisbury, and rector of Cranford, where he was buried. 

®The text meant is Job xiv. 14, “ All the days of my appointed time 
will I wait till my change come.” 

*The King’s Head. See 27th March, 1664, 


184 DIARY OF [18th May, 


Creed, who twelve months ago, might have been got to 
hang himself almost as soon as go to a drinking-house on a 
Sunday.” 

14th. Finding my head grow weak now-a-days, if I come 
to drink wine, and therefore hope that I shall leave it off 
of myself, which I pray God I could do. 

15th. There came two men, with an order from a Com- 
mittee of Lords to demand some books of me out of the 
office, in order to the examining of Mr. Hutchinson’s ac- 
counts, but I give them a surly answer, and they went away 
to complain, which put me into some trouble with myself, 
but I resolve to go to-morrow myself to these Lords, and 
answer them. 

16th. About two o’clock went in my velvet coat by water 
to the Savoy, and there, having staid a good while, I was 
called into the Lords, and there, quite contrary to my 
expectations, they did treat me very civilly, telling me what 
they had done was out of zeal to the King’s service, and 
that they would joyne with the governors of the chest with 
all their hearts, since they know that there was any, which 
they did not before. I give them very respectful answers, 
and so went away to the Theatre, and there saw the latter 
end of “The Mayd’s Tragedy,’ which I never saw before, 
and methinks it is too sad and melancholy. To the 
Wardrobe, and there we found my Lord newly gone away 
with the Duke of Ormond and some others, whom he 
had had to a collacion; and so we, with the rest of the 
servants in the hall, sat down, and eat of the best cold 
meats that ever I eat in all my life. Mr. Moore with me to 
the waterside, telling me how kindly he is used by my 
Lord and my Lady since his coming thither as a servant. 

17th. Lieutenant Lambert and I to the Exchange, and 
thence to an ordinary over against it, where to our dinner 
we had a fellow play well upon the bagpipes, and whistle 
like a bird exceeding well, and I had a fancy to learn to 
whistle as he do, and did promise to come some other day, 
and give him an angell to teach me. 

18th. Towards Westminster, from the Towre, by water, 


1He had been a zealous Puritan. 
?By Beaumont and Fletcher. Mohun played Melantius; Hart, 
Amintor; and Mrs. Marshall, Hvadne. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 185 


and was fain to stand upon of the pieres about the bridge, 
before the men could drag their boat through the lock, and 
which they could not do till another was called to help 
them. Being through bridge, I found the Thames full of 
boats and gallys, and upon inquiry found that there was a 
wager to be run this morning. So, spying of Payne in a 
gally, I went into him, and there staid thinking to have 
gone to Chelsy with them. But, upon the start, the wager 
boats fell foul of one another, till at last one of them gives 
over, pretending foule play, and so the other row away 
alone, and all our sport lost. I went ashore at West- 
minster; where it was very pleasant to see the Hall in the 
condition it is now, with the Judges on the benches at the 
further end of it,’ which I had not seen all this terme till 
now. 

19th. (Lord’s day.) I walked in the morning towards 
Westminster, and, seeing many people at York House,’ I 
went down and found them at masse, it being the Spanish 
ambassador’s;*> and so I got into one of the gallerys, and 
there heard two masses done, I think, not in so much state 
as I have seen them heretofore. After that, into the garden, 
and walked an hour or two, but found it not so fine a place 
as I always took it for by the outside. Captain Ferrers 
and Mr. Howe and myself to Mr. Wilkinson’s at the 
Crowne: then to my Lord’s, where we went and sat talking 
and laughing in the drawing-room a great while. All our 
talk upon their going to sea this voyage, which Captain 
Ferrers is in some doubt whether he shall do or no, but 
swears that he would go, if he were sure never to come 
back again; and I, giving him some hopes, he grew so mad 
with joy that he fell a-dancing and leaping like a madman. 
Now it fell out that the baleone windows were open, and 


1The Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas were at the upper 
end of the hall so lately as 1810. 


2? York House belonged to the See of York till James I.’s time, when 
Toby Mathews exchanged it with the Crown. Chancellors Egerton 
and Bacon resided there, after which it was granted to Villiers, Duke of 
Buckingham. Subsequently to the Restoration, his son occupied the 
house some years, and disposing of the premises, they were converted 
into the streets still bearing his names, and the general appellation of 
York Buildings.—See Handbook of London, ubi plura. 


’The Baron de Batteville. 


186 DIARY OF [21st May, 


he went to the rayle and made an. offer to leap over, and 
asked what if he should leap over there. I told him I 
would give him 401. if he did not go to sea. With that 
thought, I shut the doors, and W. Howe hindered him all 
we could: yet he opened them again, and, with a vault, 
leaps down into the garden:—the greatest and most des- 
perate frolic that ever I saw in my life. I run to see what 
was become of him, and we found him crawled upon his 
knees, but could not rise; so we went down into the gar- 
den, and dragged him to a bench, where he looked like a 
dead man, but could not stir; and, though he had broke 
nothing, yet his pain in his back was such as he could not 
endure. With this my Lord (who was in the little new 
room) come to us in amaze, and bid us carry him up, which, 
by our strength, we did, and so laid him in East’s bed-room, 
by the doore; where he lay in great pain. We sent for a 
doctor and chyrurgeon, but none to be found, till, by-and- 
by, by chance comes in Dr. Clerke, who is afraid of him.* 
So we went for a lodging for him. 

20th. Visited by Mr. Anderson, my former chamber 
fellow at Cambridge, with whom I parted at the Hague. 

21st. Up early, and with Sir R. Slingsby, and Major 
Waters the deafe gentleman, his friend, for company’s sake, 
to the Victualling-office, the first time that I ever knew 
where it was,” and there staid while he read a commission 
for enquiry into some of the King’s lands and houses there- 
abouts, that are given his brother. And then we took boat 
to Woolwich, where we staid and gave order for the fitting 
out of some more ships presently. And then to Deptford, 
where we did the same; and so took barge again, and were 
overtaken by the king in his barge, he having been down 
the river with his yacht this day for pleasure to try it; and 
as I hear, Commissioner Pett’s do prove better than the 
Dutch one, and that, that his brother built. While we 
were upon the water, one of the greatest showers of rain 


1He recovered. 


The Victualling Officer at the end of East Smithfield, according to 
Stow, occupied the site of the Abbey of St. Mary of the Graces, which 
had been founded by Edward III. to commemorate his escape from 
shipwreck; and was granted at the dissolution to Sir Arthur Darcy, 
who pulled it down. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 187 


fell that ever I saw. The Comptroller and I landed with 
our barge at the Temple, and from thence I went to my 
father’s, and there did give order about some clothes to be 
made. 

22d. To the Wardrobe, where my Lord and all the officers 
of the Wardrobe dined, and several other friends of my Lord, 
at a venison pasty. Before dinner, my Lady Wright and my 
Lady Jem. sang songs to the harpsichon. Very pleasant and 
merry at dinner. Before I went to bed, the barber come to 
trim me and wash me, and so to bed, in order to my being 
clean to-morrow. 

23d. To the Rhenish wine-house,’ and there Mr. Jonas 
Moore,” the mathematician, to us, and there he did by dis- 
course make us fully believe that England and France were 
once the same continent, by very good arguments, and spoke 
very many things not so much to prove the Scripture false, 
as that the time therein is not well computed nor under- 
stood. In my black silk suit, the first day I have put it on 
this year, to my Lord Mayor’s by coach, with a great deal 
of honourable company, and great entertainment. At 
table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole, 
wherein he did assure me that frogs and many insects do 
often fall from the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates’s® singu- 
larity in not rising up nor drinking the King’s nor other 
healths at the table was very much observed. From thence 
we all took coach, and to our office, and there sat till it was 
late; and so I home and to bed by daylight. This day was 
kept a holy-day through the towne; and it pleased me to 
see the little boys walk up and down in procession with 
their broom-staffs in their hands, as I had myself long 
ago done.* 


1JIn Crooked Lane; but see August 9, 1660, ante. 


2 Jonas Moore, a native of Lancashire, one of the most eminent mathe- 
maticians of his day. He was knighted by Charles II., and made Sur- 
veyor of the Ordnance, and died in 1679. 


Dr. William Bates, one of the most eminent of the puritan divines, 
and who took part in the Savoy Conference. His collected writings fill 
a large volume in folio. The dissenteors called him silver-tongued Bates; 
he certainly was not a Chrysostom. 


“Pepys here refers to the perambulation of parishes on Holy Thurs- 
day, still observed. This ceremony was sometimes enlivened by whip- 
ping the boys, for the better impressing on their minds the remem- 


188 DIARY OF Dsth May, 


25th. To the Theatre, where I saw a piece of “ The Silent 
Woman,” which pleased me. 

26th. (Lord’s day.) This day the Parliament received the 
communion of Dr. Gunning at St. Margaret’s, Westminster. 
Sir W. Batten told me how Mr. Prin, among the two or three 
that did refuse to-day to receive the sacrament upon their 
knees, was offered by a mistake the drinke afterwards, which 
he did receive, being denied the drinke by Dr. Gunning, 
unless he would take it on his knees; and after that, by 
another the bread was brought him, and he did take it 
sitting, which is thought very preposterous. ' 

27th. With my Lords Sandwich and Hinchingbroke to 
the Lords’ House by boat at Westminster, and there I left 
them. Then to the lobby, and after waiting for Sir G. 
Downing’s coming out, to speak with him about the giving 
me up of my bond for my honesty, when I was his clerk, 
but to no purpose, I went to Clerke’s at the Legg, and 
there we dined very merry, there coming to us Captain 
Ferrers, this being the first day of his going abroad since his 
leape a week ago, which I was. greatly glad to see. 

28th. With Mr. Shepley to the Exchange about business, 
and there, by Mr. Rawlinson’s favour, got into a balcone over 
against the Exchange; and there saw the hangman burn, by, 
vote of Parliament, two old acts, the one for constituting us; 
a Commonwealth, and the other I have forgot ;* which still do 
make me think of the greatness of this late turne, and what: 
people will do to-morrow against what they all, through, 
profit or fear, did promise and practice this day. 'To Cheap- 
side, about buying a piece of plate to give away to-morrow 
to Mrs. Browne’s child.’ 


brance of the day, and the boundaries of the parish, instead of beating 
houses or stones. But this would not have harmonized well with the 
excellent Hooker’s practice on this day, when he “ always dropped some 
loving and facetious observations, to be remembered against the next 
year, especially by the boys and young people.” Amongst Dorsetshire 
customs, it seems that, in perambulating a manor or parish, a boy is 
tossed into a stream, if that be the boundary; if a hedge, a sapling from 
it is applied for the purpose of flagellation. 

*It was an act for subscribing the Engagement. On the same day 
there had been burned by the hangman, in Westminster Hall, the act 
for “erecting an High Court of Justice for trying and judging Charles. 
Stuart.” Two more acts were similarly burned the next day. 


*See Jan. 16, 1660-61, ante. 


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29th. (King’s birth-day.) Rose early, and having made 


myself fine, and put six spoons and a porringer of silver in 
my pocket, to give away to-day, Sir W. Pen and I took 
coach and (the weather and way being foule) went to 
Walthamstowe; and, being come there, heard Mr. Radeliffe,* 
my former school-fellow at St. Paul’s, (who is yet a merry 
boy,) preach upon, “Nay, let him take all, since my Lord 
the King is returned,” &c. He read all, and his sermon 
very simple. Back to dinner at Sir William Batten’s; and 
then, after a walk in the fine gardens, we went to Mrs. 
Browne’s, where Sir W. Pen and I were godfathers, and 
Mrs. Jordan* and Shipman’® godmothers to her boy. And 
there, before and after the christening, we were with the 
woman above in her chamber; but, whether we carried 
ourselves well or ill, I know not; but I was directed by 
young Mrs. Batten. One passage of a lady that eat wafers 
with her dog did a little displease me. I did give the mid- 
wife 10s., and the nurse 5s., and the maid of the house Qs. 
But forasmuch as I expected to give the name to the childe, 
but did not, it being called John, I forbore then to give my 
plate till another time, after a little more advice. Being 
done, we went to Mrs. Shipman’s, who is a great butter- 
woman, and I did see there the most of milke and creame, 
and the cleanest that ever I saw in my life. After we had 
filled our bellies with creame, we took our leaves and away. 
In our way, we had great sport to try who should drive 
fastest, Sir W. Batten’s coach, or Sir W. Pen’s chariott, they 
having four, and we two horses, and we beat them. But it 
cost me the spoiling of my clothes and velvet coate with 
dirt. Being come home, I to bed, and give my breeches to 
be dried by the fire against to-morrow. 

30th. To the Wardrobe, and there, with my Lord, went 
into his new barge to try her, and found her a good boat, 
and like my Lord’s contrivance of the door to come out 
round, and not square, as they used to do; and thence I to 
Gratien, who took me to Arundell-House, and there showed 


1 Jonathan Radcliff, A. M., then Vicar of Walthamstow. 

*The wife of Captain, afterwards Sir Joseph, Jordan. 

’Robert Shipman bought the great tithes of Walthamstow from the 
Argall family in 1663; and left them by will to his wife Dorothy, from 
whom they passed in 1667 to Robert Mascall, merchant. 


190 | DIARY OF rea eae 


me some fine flowers in his garden, and all the fine statues 
in the gallery, which I formerly had seen, and is a brave 
sight, and thence to a blind, dark cellar, where we had two 
bottles of good ale. This day, I hear, the Parliament have 
ordered a bill to be brought in for restoring the Bishops to 
the House of Lords; which they had not done so soon but 
to spite Mr. Prin, who is every day so bitter against them 
in his discourse in the House. 

31st. Great talk now how the Parliament intend to make 
a collection of free gifts to the King through the Kingdom; 
but I think it will not come to much.* 

June Ist. Having dined at Woolwich, with Captain Poole, 
at the taverne there, by water to Deptford. We walked to 
Redriffe, calling at the half-way house, and there come 
into a room where there was infinite of new cakes placed 
that are made against Whitsuntide, and there we were 
very merry. 

2d. (Whitsunday.) The barber having done with me, I 
went to church, and there heard a good sermon of Mr. Mills 
fit for the day. To church again. It rained very hard, as 
it hath done of late, so much so that we begin to doubt a 
famine. 

3d. To the Wardrobe, where, discoursing with my Lord, 
he did instruct me as to the business of the Wardrobe, in 
case, in his absence, Mr. Townsend should die, and told me 
that he did intend to joyne me and Mr. Moore with him as 
to the business, now he is going to sea, and spoke to me 
many other things, as to one that he do put the greatest 
confidence in, of which I am proud. My cozen Scott come 
to dine with me, and before he had done, in comes my father 
Bowyer, and my mother and four daughters, and a young 
gentleman and his sister, their friends, and there staid all 
the afternoon, which cost me great store of wine, and were 
very merry. Mr. Creed and I to the Tower, to speak for 
some ammunicion for ships for my Lord; and so he and I, 
with much pleasure, walked quite round the Tower, which 
I never did before. To the Beare, at the Bridge-foot, 
thinking to have met my Lord Hinchingbroke and his 
brother, setting forth for France, but they being not come, 


1See 3lst August, 1661, post. 


Bee 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 191 


we went over to the Wardrobe, and there found that 
my Lord Abbot Montagu’ being not at Paris, my Lord 
hath a mind to have them stay a little longer before 
they go. 

4th. To my Lord Crewe’s to dinner, and had very good 
discourse about having of young noblemen and gentlemen to 
think of going to sea, as being as honourable service as the 
land war. And among other things he told us how, in 
Queen Elizabeth’s time, one young nobleman would wait 
with a trencher at the back of another till he come to age 
himself; and witnessed in my young Lord of Kent that 
then was, who waited upon my Lord Bedford at table, when 
a letter come to my Lord Bedford that the Earldome of 
Kent was fallen to his servant the young Lord; and so he 
rose from table, and made him sit down in his place, and 
took a lower for himself, for so he was by place to 
sit. From thence to the Theatre, and saw Harry the 4th, 
a good play. 

5th. This morning did give my wife 41. to lay out upon 
lace and other things for herself. Sir W. Pen and I went 
out with Sir R. Slingsby to bowles in his ally, and there had 
good sport. I took my flageolette, and played upon the 
leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen come out in his shirt 
into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing and 
drinking great draughts of claret, and eating botargo,’ and 
bread and butter, till twelve at night, it being moonshine; 
and so to bed, very near fuddled. 

6th. My head hath aked all night, and all this morning, 
with my last night’s debauch. Called up this morning by 
Lieutenant Lambert,‘ who is now made Captain of the 
Norwich, and he and I went down by water to Greenwich, 
and eat and drank and heard musique at the Globe, and 
saw the simple motion that is there of a woman with 


1Walter, second son to the first Earl of Manchester, embracing the 
Romish faith while on his travels, was made Abbot of Pontoise, through 
the influence of Mary de Medici. He afterwards became almoner to 
the Queen-Dowager of England, and died 1670. 

The Earldom of Kent was erected for the Grey family in 1465; that 
of Bedford for the Russells, in 1550. 

*A sausage made of eggs, and of the blood of a sea mullet. 


*See 24th Jan., 1659-60, ante. 


192 DIARY OF [9th June, 


a rod in her hand keeping time to the musique while 
it plays, which is simple, methinks. Back again by 
water, calling at Captain Lambert’s house, which is very 
handsome and neat, and a fine prospect at top. So to 
the office. The weather very hot, this night I left off my 
wastecoate. 

8th. To White-Hall to my Lord, who did tell me that he 

would have me to go to Mr. Townsend, whom he had ordered 
to discover to me the whole mystery of the Wardrobe, and 
none else but me, and that he will make me deputy with him, 
for fear that he should die in my Lord’s absence, of which I 
was glad. I went to the Theatre, and there saw Bartho- 
lomew Faire," the first time it was acted now-a-days. It is 
a most admirable play, and well acted, but too much pro- 
phane and abusive. 

9th. (Lord’s day.) This day my wife put on her black 
silk gown, which is now laced all over with black gimp lace, 
as the fashion is, in which she is very pretty. She and I 
walked to my Lady’s at the Wardrobe, and there dined, and 
was exceeding much made of. After dinner to Mr. Pierce’s, 
and there he and I, and Mr. Symons, (dancing-master) that 
goes to sea with my Lord, to the Swan taverne, and there 
drank. To White Hall, and there met with Dean Fuller,” 
and walked a great while with him; among other things 
discoursed of the liberty the Bishop (by name he of Gallo- 
way’) takes to admit into orders any body that will; among 
others, Roundtree, a simple mechanique that was a parson 


1A comedy, by Ben Jonson; first acted in 1614. 
See ante, 7th April 1661, and note. 


*Murray and Heath, whose authority is generally good, assert that 
James Hamilton was at this time Bishop of Galloway; but the com- 
mission for his consecration bears date 12th December, 1661. Kennet 
also mentions Thomas Sydserf, who had been deposed from the see of 
Galloway by the Presbyterians in 1638, as the only Scotch prelate alive 
at the Restoration; and adds, that he came up to London, expecting to 
be advanced to the Primacy. But he had so disgusted the English 
bishops, that he was only removed to the See of Orkney, which, though 
richly endowed, was considered at all times as a sinecure; and he did 
not long survive his translation. At all events, Hamilton was his suc- 
cessor, and the Bishop of Galloway mentioned in the Diary, 15th May, 
1663. Lingard’s testimony is in favour of Sydserf being the Bishop of 
Galloway here alluded to. The death of the Bishop of Orkney (late 
of Galloway) is mentioned in The Intelligencer, 29th September, 1663. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 193 


formerly of the Fleet." He told me he would complain 
of it. By and by we went and got a sculler, and, landing 
him at Worcester House, went to the Wardrobe. I went 
up to Jane Shore’s towre, and there W. Howe and I sang, 
and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed. 

10th. Early to my Lord’s, who privately told me how 
the King had made him Embassador in the bringing over 
the Queen. ‘That he is to go to Algiers, &c., settle the 
business, and to put the fleet in order there; and so to 
come back to Lisbone with three ships, and there to meet 
the fleet that is to follow him. He sent for me, to tell me 
that he do intrust me with the seeing of all things done in 
his absence as to this great preparation, as I shall receive 
orders from my Lord Chancellor and Mr. Edward Montagu. 
At all which my heart is above measure glad for my 
Lord’s honour, and some profit to myself, I hope. By and 
by, out with Mr. Shepley, Walden,’ Parliament-man for 
Huntingdon, Rolt,? Mackworth and Alderman Backwell, 
to a house hard by, to drink Lambeth ale. So I back to 
the Wardrobe, and there found my Lord going to Trinity 
House,* this being the solemn day of choosing Master, and 
my Lord is chosen; so he dines there to-day. I stayed 
and dined with my Lady; but after we were set, comes in 
some persons of condition, and so the children and I rose 
and dined by ourselves all. The children and I were very 
merry, and they mightily fond of me. 

11th. At the office this morning, Sir G. Carteret with us; 
and we agreed upon a letter to the Duke of York, to tell 
him the sad condition of this office for want of money; 
how men are not able to serve us more without some money ; 
and that now the credit of the office is brought so low, that 
none will sell us any thing without our personal security 
given for the same. 

12th. Wednesday, a day kept between a fast and a feast, 
the Bishops not being ready enough to keep the fast for 


1See the account of the Fleet marriages, in Pennant’s London, and 
Burn’s Hist. of the Fleet Marriages. 

? Lionel. 

Perhaps the same person who had been Envoy from the Protector 
to the King of Sweden, and is described by Kennet, in September, 
1655, as kinsman to his Highness. 

*In Water Lane, near the Tower. 


VOL... I. Oo 


194 DIARY OF [13th June, 


foule weather, before fair weather come; and so they were 
forced to keep it between both. Then to White Hall, 
where I met my Lord, who told me he must have 300l. 
laid out in cloth, to give in Barbary, as presents among 
the Turkes. At home, practising to sing, which is now my 
great trade. 

13th.-To Alderman Backwell’s, but his servants not being 
up, I went home, and put on my gray cloth suit and faced 
white coate, made of one of my wife’s pettycoates, the first 
time I have had it on, and so in a riding garbe back again. 
With my Lord to White Hall by water, and he having 
taken leave of the King, comes to us at his lodgings, and 
from thence goes to the Garden-staires, and there takes 
barge, and at the staires was met by Sir R. Slingsby, who 
there took his leave of my Lord, and I heard my Lord 
thank him for his kindness to me, which Sir Robert answered 
much to my advantage. I went down with my Lord in the 
barge to Deptford, and there went on board the Dutch 
yacht, and staid there a good while, W. Howe not being 
come with my Lord’s things, which made my Lord very 
angry. By and by he comes, and so we set sayle, and anon 
went to dinner, my Lord and we very merry; and after 
dinner, I went down below, and there sang, and took leave 
of W. Howe, Captain Rolt, and the rest of my friends, then 
went up and took leave of my Lord, who give me his hand, 
and parted with great respect. So went, and Captain Fer- 
rers with me, into our wherry, and my Lord did give five 
guns, all they had charged, which was the greatest respect 
my Lord could do me, and of which I was not a little proud. 
So with a sad and merry heart I left them sailing presently 


1 A Form of Prayer was published to be used in London on the 12th, 
and in the country on the 19th of June, being the special days ap- 
pointed for a general fast to be kept in the respective places for avert- 
ing those sicknesses and diseases, that dearth and scarcity, which justly 
may be feared from the late immoderate rain and waters: for a thanks- 
giving also for the blessed change of weather; and the begging the 
continuance of it to us for our comfort: And likewise for beseeching a 
Blessing upon the High Court of Parliament now assembled: Set forth 
by his Majesty’s authority. A sermon was preached before the Con- 
mons by Thomas Greenfield, Preacher of Lincoln’s Inn. The Lords 
taxed themselves for the poor—an Earl, 30s., a Baron, 20s. Those 
absent from Prayers were to pay a forfeit. 


ania 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 195 


from Erith, hoping to be in the Downes to-morrow early. 
We toward London in our boat. Pulled off our stockings, 
and bathed our legs a great while in the river, which I had 
not done some years before. By and by we come to Green- 
wich, and thinking to have gone on the King’s yacht, the 
King was in her, so we passed by, and at Woolwich went on 
shore; and I home, and with wine enough in my head, went 
to bed. 

14th. To White Hall to my Lord’s, where I found Mr. 
Edward Montagu and his family come to lie during my 
Lord’s absence. I sent to my house, by my Lord’s order, 
his shipp’ and triangle virginall. 

15th. Dined with my Lady, who, now my Lord is gone, is 
come to her poor housekeeping again. 

16th. (Lord’s day.) No purser coming in the morning 
for the goods, at a great losse what to do. The after- 
noon I spent in reading “* The Spanish Gypsey,’” a play 
not very good, though commended much. At night re- 
solved to hire a Margate Hoy, who would go away to- 
morrow morning, which I did, and sent the things all by 
him. 

18th. All this morning at home vexing about the delay of 
my painters, and about four in the afternoon my wife and I 
by water to Captain Lambert’s, where we took great pleasure 
in their turret-garden, and seeing the fine needle-work of his 
wife, the best I ever saw in my life, and afterwards had a 
very handsome treate and good musique that she made upon 
the harpsichon. 

19th. One thing I must observe here, while I think of it, 
that I am now become the most negligent man in the world 
as to matters of newes, insomuch that, now-a-days, I neither 
can tell any, nor aske any of others. 

20th. At home the greatest part of the day, to see my 
workmen make an end, which this night they did to my 
great content. 

21st. Mr. Norbury and I did discourse of his wife’s 
house and land at Brampton, which I find too much for me 
to buy. 


1 Sic. orig., probably the word glass was omitted. 
7A comedy by T. Middleton and W. Rowley, printed 1653, and 
again in 1661. 
o2 


196 DIARY OF [27th June, 


22d. At noon, went and dined with my Lord Crewe, 
where very much made of by him and his lady. Then to 
the ‘Theatre, “The Alchymist,”* which is a most incomparable 
play. 

23d. (Lord’s day.) In the morning to church, and my 
wife not being well, I went with Sir W. Batten home to 
dinner, my Lady being out of town, where there was Sir 
W. Pen, Captain Allen and his daughter Rebecca, and Mr. 
Hempson and his wife. After dinner to church all of us, 
and had a very good sermon of a stranger, and so I and the 
young company to walk first to Graye’s Inn Walks, where 
great store of gallants, but above all the ladies I there saw, 
or ever did see, Mrs. Frances Butler’ (Monsieur L’Imperti- 
nent’s sister) is the greatest beauty. Then we went to 
Islington, where at the great house I entertained them as 
well as I could, and so home with them, and so to my own 
home and to bed. Pall, who went this day to a child’s 
christening at Kate Joyce’s, staid out all night at my 
father’s—she not being well. 

24th. (Midsummer-day.) I and Dr. Williams to the 
ordinary over against the Exchange, where we dined, and 
had great wrangling with the master of the house when the 
reckoning was brought to us, he setting down exceeding 
high every thing. 

25th. Captain Allen and his daughter Rebecca, and 
Mr. Hempson, and by and by both Sir Williams, who sat 
with me till it was late, and I had a very gallant collacion 
for them. 

‘26th. To dine with my Lady at the Wardrobe, taking 
Dean Fuller along with me: then home, where I heard that 
my father had been to find me out about special business ; 
so I took a coach and went to him, and found by a letter to 
him from my aunt that my uncle Robert is taken with a 
dizzinesse in his head, by which we guess that he is very ill, 
and so my father do think to go to-morrow. And so God’s 
will be done. 

27th. To my father’s. There I told him how I would 
have him speak to my uncle Robert, when he comes thither, 
concerning my buying of land—that I could pay ready 
money 6001., and the rest by 1501. per annum, to make up 

+A comedy, by Ben Jonson. *See July 14, 1660, ante. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 197 


as much as will buy 501. per annum, which I do, though I 
am not worth above 500I. ready money, that he may think 
me to be a greater saver than I am. Then with my Lady 
Batten, Mrs. Rebecca Allen, Mrs. *"Thompson, &c., two 
coaches of us, we went and saw “ Bartholomew Fayre,” 
acted very well. So home to bed. This day Mr. Holden 
sent me a bever, which cost me 41. 5s." 

28th. Went to Moorefields, and there walked, and 
stood and saw the wrestling, which I never saw so much 
of before, between the north and west countrymen. This 
night had our bed set up in our room that we called the 
Nursery, where we lay, and I am very much pleased with 
the room. 

29th. By a letter from the Duke, complaining of the 
delay of the ships that are to be got ready, Sir Williams 
both and I went to Deptford, and there examined into 
the delays, and were satisfyed. Mr. Chetwind fell com- 
mending of “Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity,” as the best 
book, and the only one that made him a Christian, which 
puts me upon the buying of it, which I will do shortly. 

30th. (Lord’s day.) To church, where we observe the 
trade of briefs is come now up to so constant a course 
every Sunday, that we resolve to give no more to them.’ Sir 
Williams both and I to White Hall, where we met the 
Duke of York, according to an order sent us yesterday from 
him, to give him an account where the fault lay in the not 
sending out of the ships, which we find to be only the wind 
hath been against them, and so they could not get out of 
the river. Hence I to Graye’s Inn Walk all alone, and 
with great pleasure, seeing the fine ladies walk there. My- 


*Whilst a hat (see Jan. 28, 1660-61, ante) cost only 35s. See also 
Lord Sandwich’s vexation at his beaver being stolen, and a hat only 
left in lieu of it, April 30, 1661, ante; and April 19th and 26th, 1662, 
post. 


*It appears, from an old MS. account-book of the collections in the 
church of St. Olave, Hart Street, beginning in 1642, still extant, that 
the money gathered on the 30th June, 1661, “for several inhabitants 
of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West towards their losse by fire,” 
amounted to “xxs. viiid.’ Pepys might complain of the trade in 
briefs, as similar contributions had been levied fourteen weeks succes- 
sively, previous to the one in question at St. Olave’s church. Briefs 
were abolished in 1828, 


198 DIARY OF [4th July, 


self humming to myself (which now-a-days is my constant 
practice since I begun to learn to sing) the trillo, and found 
by use that it do come upon me. This day, the Portuguese 
Embassador* come to White Hall to take leave of the King; 
he being now going to end all with the Queen, and to send 
her over. Myself in good health, but mighty apt to take 
cold, so that this hot weather I am fain to wear a cloth be- 
fore my stomach. 

July Ist. This morning into the city, to buy several 
things, as I have lately done, for my house. Among other 
things, a fair chest of drawers for my own chamber, and an 
Indian gown for myself. The first cost me 33s., the other 
34s. Home, and dined there, and Theodore Goodgroome, 
my singing-master, with me, and then to our singing. 

2d. My father writes that my uncle is by fits stupid, and 
like a man that is drunk, and sometimes speechless. Went 
to Sir William Davenant’s* Opera, this being the fourth 
day that it hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. 
To-day was acted the second part of ** The Siege of Rhodes.’” 
We staid a very great while for the King and the Queen of 
Bohemia ;* and by the breaking of a board over our heads, 
we had a great deal of dust fell into the ladies’ necks and 
the men’s haire, which made good sport. ‘The King being 
come, the scene opened; which indeed is very fine and 
magnificent, and well acted, all but the Eunuche, who was 
so much out that he was hissed off the stage. 

3d. Dined with my Lady, who is in some mourning for 
her brother, Mr. Samuel Crewe, who died yesterday of the 
spotted fever. This day, my Lady Batten and my wife 
were at the burial of a daughter of Sir John Lawson’s, and 
had rings for themselves and their husbands. 

Ath. I went to the Theatre, and there I saw “ Claracilla’* 
(the first time I ever saw it,) well acted. But strange to 
see this house, that used to be so thronged, now empty 
since the Opera began; and so will continue for a while, I 
believe. 


1Don Francisco de Mello, Conde de Ponte. 

2Sir William Davenant, the celebrated dramatic writer, and patentee 
of the Duke’s Theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Ob. 1668, aged 64, 
He was the author of the “ Siege of Rhodes.” 

>See May 14, 1660, ante. 

“A tragi comedy by Thomas Killigrew. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 199 


6th. Waked this morning with news, brought me by a 
messenger on purpose, that my uncle Robert is dead; so I 
rose sorry in some respect, glad in my expectations in 
another respect: so I bought me a pair of boots in St. Mar- 
tin’s, and got myself ready, and then to the Post-house, and 
set out about eleven and twelve o’clock, taking the mes- 
senger with me that come to me, and so we rode, and got 
well by nine o’clock to Brampton, where I found my father 
well. My uncle’s corps in a coffin standing upon joynt- 
stooles in the chimney in the hall; but it begun to smell, 
and so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all night, and 
watched by my aunt. My father and I lay together to- 
night, I greedy to see the will, but did not ask to see it till 
to-morrow. 

7th. (Lord’s day.) In the morning, my father and I 
read the will; where, though he gives me nothing at 
present till my father’s death, or at least very little, yet I 
am glad to see that he hath done so well for us all, and well 
to the rest of his kindred. After that done, we went 
about getting things, as ribbands and gloves, ready for the 
burial, which in the afternoon was done; where, it being 
Sunday, all people far and near come in; and, in the 
greatest disorder that ever I saw, we made shift to serve 
them with what we had of wine and other things; and then 
to carry him to the church, where Mr. Taylor buried hin, 
and Mr. Turner preached a funeral sermon, where he 
spoke not particularly of him anything, but that he was 
one so well known for his honesty, that it spoke for itself 
above all that he could say for it. And so made a very 
good sermon. 

8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th. I fell to work, and my 
father to look over my uncle’s papers and clothes, and 
continued all this week upon that business, much troubled 
with my aunt’s base, ugly humours. We had news of Tom 
Trice putting in a caveat against us, in behalf of his mother, 
to whom my uncle hath not given anything, and for good 
reason therein expressed, which troubled us also. But 
above all, our trouble is to find that his estate appears 
nothing as we expected, and all the world believes, nor 
his papers so well sorted as I would have had them, but all 
in confusion, that break my brains to understand them. 


200 DIARY OF [19th July, 


We missed also the surrenders of his copyhold land, with- 
out which the land would not come to us, but to the heire 
at lawe, so that what with this, and the badness of the 
drink, and the ill opinion I have of the meat, and the biting 
of the gnats by night, and my disappointment in getting 
home this week, and the trouble of sorting all the papers, I 
am almost out of my wits with trouble, only I appear the 
more contented, because I would not have my father troubled. 

14th. (Lord’s day.) At home, and Robert Barnwell with 
us, and dined, and in the evening my father and I walked 
round past home, and viewed all the fields, which was very 
pleasant. To Hinchingbroke, which is now all in dirt, be- 
cause of my Lord’s building, which will make it very magni- 
ficent. Back to Brampton. 

15th. Up by three o’clock this morning, and rode to 
Cambridge, and was there by seven o’clock, where, after I 
was trimmed, I went to Christ College, and found my 
brother John at eight o’clock in bed, which vexed me. Then 
to King’s College chappel, where I found the scholars in 
their surplices at the service with the organs, which is a 
strange sight to what it used in my time to be here. Then 
with Dr. Fairbrother (whom I met there) to the Rose 
taverne, and called for some wine, and sent also for Mr. 
Sanchy, with whom and other gentlemen, friends of his, we 
were very merry, and I treated them as well as I could, and 
so at noon took horse, having taken leave of my cozen 
Angier, and rode to Impington, where I found my old uncle* 
sitting all alone, like a man out of the world: he can hardly 
see; but all things else he do pretty lively. 

16th, 17th, 18th, 19th. These four days we spent in 
putting things in order, letting of the crop upon the ground, 
agreeing with Hanker to have a care of my business in 
my absence, and we think ourselves in nothing happy but 
in hghting upon him to be our bayly. Riding to Offord 
and Sturtlow, and up and down all our lands, and had 
advice from Mr. Moore from London by my desire that the 
three witnesses of the will being all legatees, will not do 
the will any wrong. My aunt continuing in her base, hypo- 
critical tricks, which both Jane Perkin (of whom we make 
great use) and the maid do tell us every day of. 

*Talbot Pepys. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 201 


20th. To Huntingdon, and dined with Sir Robert Bernard 
and his lady, my Lady Digby,’ a very good woman. 

21st. (Lord’s day.) At home all the morning, putting 
my papers in order against my going to-morrow. 

22d. Up by three, and going by four on my way to Lon- 
don; but the day proves very cold, so that, having put on 
no stockings but thread ones under my boots, I was fain 
at Bigglesworth*® to buy a pair of coarse woolen ones, and 
put them on. So by degrees, till I come to Hatfield 
before twelve o’clock, and walked all alone to the Vine- 
yard, which is now a very beautiful place again; and 
coming back I met with Mr. Looker, my Lord’s* gardener 
(a friend of Mr. Eglin’s), who showed me the house, the 
chappel with brave pictures, and above all, the gardens, 
such as I never saw in all my life; nor so good flowers, 
nor so great gooseburys, as big as nutmegs. Back to the 
inne, and so to horse again, and with much ado got to Lon- 
don. Called at my uncle Fenner’s, my mother’s, my Lady’s, 
and so home, in all which I found all things as well as I could 
expect. 

23d. Put on my mourning: I went to the Theatre, and 
saw “ Brenoralt,”* I never saw before. It seemed a good 
play, but ill acted; only I sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King’s 
mistress, and filled my eyes with her, which much pleased me. 
Troubled to hear how proud and idle Pall is grown, that I 
-am resolved not to keep her. 

24th. This morning my wife in bed tells me of our 
being robbed of our silver tankard, which vexed me all day 
for the negligence of my people to leave the door open. 
To the Wardrobe, but come too late, and dined with the 
servants. And then to my Lady, who do shew my wife 
and me the greatest favour in the world, in which I take 
great content. ‘To the office all the afternoon, which is a 
great pleasure to me again, to talk with persons of quality, 
and to be in command, and I give it out among them that 


1Sir Robert Bernard, Sergeant-at-law, of Huntingdon, cr. Bart. 
1662, and ob. 1666. His second wife, here mentioned, was Elizabeth, 
relict of George Lord Digby, ob. January, 1662. 


? Biggleswade. * William Cecil, second Earl of Salisbury. 


*Brenoralt, or the Discontented Colonel, a tragedy, by Sir John 
Suckling. 


202 DIARY OF [27th July, 


the estate left me is 200]. a year in land, besides moneys, 
because I would put an esteem upon myself. I hear that 
my man Will hath lost his clock with my tankard, at which 
I am very glad. 

25th. To the Theatre, and saw “ The Joviall Crew,’ the 
first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry and the most 
innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed. Full 
of thoughts to think of the trouble that we shall go through 
before we come to see what will remain to us of all our 
expectations. 

26th. Mr. Hill of Cambridge tells me, that yesterday’ put 
a change to the whole state of England as to the Church; 
for the King now would be forced to favour Presbytery, or 
that the City would leave him: but I heed not what he says, 
though upon inquiry I do find that things in the Parliament 
are in a great disorder. 

27th. To Westminster, where, at Mr. Montagu’s 
chamber, I heard a Frenchman play, a friend of Monsieur 
Eschar’s, upon the guitar most extreme well, though at 
best methinks it is but a bawble. To Westminster Hall, 
where it was expected that the Parliament was to have 
been adjourned for two or three months, but something 
hinders it for a day or two. In the lobby I spoke with 
Mr. George Montagu, and advised about a ship to carry my 
Lord Hinchingbroke and the rest of the young gentlemen 
to France, and they have resolved of going in a hired vessel 
from Rye, and not in a man of war. He told me in dis- 
course that my Lord Chancellor is much envied, and that 
many great men, such as the Duke of Buckingham and my 
Lord of Bristoll,* do endeavour to undermine him, and that 
he believes it will not be done; for the King, though he 
loves him not in the way of a companion, as he do these 
young gallants that can answer him in his pleasures, yet 
cannot be without him, for his policy and service. From 
thence to the Wardrobe, where my wife met me, it being 
my Lord of Sandwich’s birthday, and so we had many 
friends here—Mr. Townsend and his wife, and Captain 


Or, “The Merry Beggars,” a comedy, by Richard Brome. 

When the Savoy conference ended, the Royal Commission having 
expired on that day. 

*George Digby, second Earl of Bristol. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 203 


Ferrer’s lady and Captain Isham, and were very merry, 
and had a good venison pasty. Mr. Pargiter, the merchant, 
was with us also. After dinner, Mr. Townsend was called 
upon by Captain Cooke: so we three went to a taverne 
hard by, and there he did give us a song or two; and with- 
out doubt he hath the best manner of singing in the world. 
Back to my wife, and with my Lady Jem. and Pall by 
water through bridge, and showed them the ships with great 
pleasure, and then took them to my house to show it them 
(my Lady, their mother, having been lately all alone to 
see it and my wife, in my absence in the country), and we 
treated them well, and were very merry. Then back again 
through bridge, and set them safe at home, and so my wife 
and I by coach home again. 

28th. (Lord’s day.) To church, and then come home 
with us Sir W. Pen, and drank with us, and then went 
away, and my wife after him, to see his daughter that is 
lately come out of Ireland; and whereas I expected she should 
have been a great beauty, she is a very plain girl. This 
evening my wife gives me all my linen, which I have put up, 
and intend to keep it now in my own custody. 

29th. Word is brought that my aunt Fenner is exceed- 
ing ill, and that my mother is sent for presently to come 
to her: also that my cozen Charles Glassecocke, though very 
ill himself, is this day gone to the country to his brother 
John Glassecocke, who is dying there. 

30th. After my singing-master had done with me this 
morning, I went to White Hall and Westminster Hall, 
where I found the King expected to come and adjourne 
the Parliament. I found the two Houses at a great differ- 
ence, about the Lords challenging their privileges not to 
have their houses searched, which makes them deny to pass 
the House of Commons’ Bill for searching for pamphlets 
and seditious books. Thence by water to the Wardrobe 
(meeting the King upon the water going in his barge to 
adjourne the House), where I dined with my Lady, and 
there met Dr. Thomas Pepys, who I found to be a silly, 
talking fellow, but very good-natured. In Fleet Street, I 
met with Mr. Salisbury, who is now grown in less than two 
years’ time so great a limner that he is become excellent, 


204 DIARY OF [3d August, 


and gets a great deal of money at it. I took him to Her- 
cules Pillars’ to drink. 

31st. Singing-master come to me this morning; then 
to the office all the morning. In the afternoon I went to 
the Theatre, and there I saw “ The Tamer Tamed’” well 
done. 

August Ist. This morning Sir Williams both, and my 
wife and I, and Mrs. Margarett Pen (this first time that I 
have seen her since she come from Ireland) went by coach 
to Walthamstowe, a-gossiping to Mrs. Browne, where I 
did give her six silver spoons* for her boy. Here we had 
a venison pasty, brought hot from London, and were very 
merry. 

2d. I made myself ready to get a-horseback for Cambridge. 
So I set out and rode to Ware, this night, in the way having 
much discourse with a fellmonger, a quaker, who told me 
what a wicked man he had been all his life-time till within 
this two years. Here I lay. 

3d. Got up early, and got to Barkway, where I staid 
and drank, and there met with a letter-carrier of Cambridge, 
with whom I rode all the way to Cambridge, my horse being 
tired, and myself very wet with rayne. I went to the 
Castle Hill, where the Judges were at the Assizes; and I 
staid till Roger Pepys rose, and went with him, and dined 
with his brother [the] Doctor and Claxton at Trinity-Hall. 
Then parted, and I went to the Rose, and there with Mr. 
Pechell,* and Sanchy, and others, sat and drank till night, 
and were very merry, only they tell me how high the old 


1A tavern in Fleet Street. 2See Oct. 30, 1660, ante. 
®See May 29, 1661, ante. 


‘John Peachell, S. T. P., Vicar of Stanwick, and Prebendary of 
Carlisle, made Master of Magdalen College, 1679; from which office, 
as well as that of Vice-Chancellor, he was suspended by the Ecclesi- 
astical Commissioners, May 7, 1687, for disobeying the Royal Man- 
date. He was, however, restored by King James II.’s Letter to the 
Headship, October 24, 1688, and died 1690. Lord Dartmouth, in a 
note to Burnet’s Reign of James II., p. 167, edit. 1852, mentions that 
Dr. Peachell starved himself to death: Archbishop Sancroft having 
rebuked him for setting an ill example in the University by drunken- 
ness and other loose conduct, he did penance by four days’ abstinence; 
after which he would have eaten, but could not. Pepys afterwards 
(3d May, 1667) remarks upon the rubicundity of Peachell’s nose, on 
which account he was ashamed to walk with him. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 205 


doctors are in the University over those they found there, 
though a great deal better scholars than themselves; for 
which I am very sorry, and above all, Dr. Gunning. At 
night I took horse, and rode with Roger Pepys and his two 
brothers to Impington, and there with great respect was 
led up by them to the best chamber in the house, and there 
slept. 

4th. (Lord’s day.) Walked in the orchard with my 
cozen Roger, and there discoursed about my uncle’s will, 
in which he did give me good satisfaction, but tells me I 
shall meet with a great deal of trouble in it. However, in 
all things he told me what I am to expect and what to do. 
To church, and had a good plain sermon. At our coming in 
the country-people all rose with so much reverence; and 
when the parson begins, he begins “* Right Worshipfull and 
dearly beloved ”* to us. To church again, and, after supper, 
to talk about publique matters, wherein Roger Pepys told 
me how basely things have been carried in Parliament by 
the young men, that did labour to oppose all things that 
were moved by serious men. ‘That they are the most pro- 
phane swearing fellows that ever he heard in his life, which 
makes him think that they will spoil all, and bring things into 
a warr again, if they can. 

5th. Early to Huntingdon, but was fain to stay a great 
while at Stanton because of the rayne, and there borrowed 
a coat of a man for 6d., and so he rode all the way, poor 
man, without any. Staid at Huntingdon for a little, but 
the judges were not yet come hither: so I went to Bramp- 
ton, and there found my aunt gone from the house, which 
I am glad of, though it cost us a great deal of money, viz. 
107. After dinner, took horse, and rode to Yelling, to my 
cozen Nightingale’s, who hath a pretty house here, and 
did learn of her all she could tell me concerning my 
business. 

6th. Home to my father, who could discerne that I had 
been drinking, which he did never see or hear of before: 
so I eat a bit of dinner, and then took horse for London, 
and with much ado, the ways being very bad, got to 


1This takes away the originality of Dean Swift's “dearly beloved 
Roger!” 


206 DIARY OF [10th August, 


Baldwick.* There lay, and had a good supper by myself. 
The landlady being a pretty woman, but I durst not take 
notice of her, her husband being there. Before dinner, I 
went to see the church, which is a very handsome church. 
I find that both here and everywhere else that I come, 
the Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than 
lessen. 

7th. Called up at three o’clock, and was a-horseback 
by four; and, as I was eating my breakfast, I saw a man 
riding by that rode a little way upon the road with me 
last night; and he, being going with venison in his pan- 
yards to London, I called him in, and did give him his 
breakfast with me: and so we went together all the way. At 
Hatfield, we bayted and walked into the great house through 
all the courts; and I would fain have stolen a pretty dog 
that followed me, but I could not, which troubled me. To 
horse again, and by degrees with much ado got to Lon- 
don, where I found all well at home, and at my father’s 
and my Lady’s, but no newes yet from my Lord where 
he is. 

8th. Early in the morning to White Hall, but my Lord 
Privy Seale” come not all the morning. Again to the Privy 
Seale; but my Lord comes not all the afternoon, which made 
me mad, and gives all the world reason to talk of his delay- 
ing of businesse, as well as his severity and ill using of the 
clerkes of the Privy Seale. 

9th. I to White Hall, where, after foure o’clock, comes 
my Lord Privy Seale; and so we went up to his chamber 
over the gate at White Hall, where he asked me what 
deputacon I had from my Lord. I told him none; but 
that I am sworn my Lord’s deputy by both of the 
Secretarys, which did satisfye him. So he caused Mr. 
Moore to read over all the bills, and all ended very 
well. So that I still see the lyon is not so fierce as he is 
painted. 

10th. This morning come the mayde that my wife hath 
lately hired for a chamber-mayde. She is very ugly, so 
that I cannot care for her, but otherwise she seems very 


1 Baldock. 
? William, first Viscount, and second Baron Say and Sele, made 
Lord Privy Seal at the Restoration. Ob. April, 1662. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 207 
good. To the Theatre— The Merry Devill of Edmunton,”* 


a very merry play, the first time I ever saw it, which pleased 
me well. 

11th. (Lord’s day.) To our own church in the forenoon, 
and in the afternoon to Clerkenwell church, only to see the 
two fayre Botelers; and I happened to be placed in the pew 
where they afterwards come to sit, but the pew by their 
coming being too full, I went out into the next, and there 
sat, and had my full view of them both, but I am out of 
conceit now with them, Colonel Dillon being come back 
from Ireland again, and do still court them, and comes to 
church with them, which makes me think they are not 
honest. Hence to Graye’s-Inn Walks, and there staid a 
good while; where I met with Ned Pickering, who told me 
what a great match of hunting of a stag the King had yes- 
terday; and how the King tired all their horses, and come 
home with not above two or three able to keep pace with 
him. 

12th. In the afternoon had notice that my Lord Hinch- 
ingbroke is fallen ill, which I fear is with the fruit that I 
did give them on Saturday last at my house: so in the 
evening I went thither, and there found him very ill, and in 
great fear of the small-pox. I supped with my Lady, and 
did consult about him, but we find it best to let him le 
where he do; and so I went home with my heart full of 
trouble for my Lord Hinchingbroke’s sicknesse, and now 
for my Lord Sandwich’s himself whom we are now con- 
firmed is sick ashore at Alicante, who, if he should miscarry, 
God knows in what condition would his family be. I dined 
to-day with my Lord Crewe, who is now at Sir H. Wright’s, 
while his new house is making fit for him, and he is much 
troubled also at all these things. 

13th. To the Wardrobe, and found my young Lord very 
ill, so my Lady intends to send her other three sons, Sidney, 
Oliver, and John, to my house, for fear of the small-pox. 
Home, and there found my Lady’s three sons come, of which 
I am glad that I am in condition to do her and my Lord 
any service in this kind; but my mind is yet very much 
troubled about my Lord of Sandwich’s health. 

14th. This morning Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen and 


Anonymous; printed in 1608. 


208 DIARY OF [17th August, 


I, waited upon the Duke of York in his chamber, to give 
him an account of the condition of the Navy for lack of 
money, and how our own very bills are offered upon the 
Exchange, to be sold at 20 in the 100 loss. He is much 
troubled at it, and will speak to the King and Council of it 
this morning. I went to my Lady’s and dined with her, and 
found my Lord Hinchingbroke somewhat better. At home, 
I found a letter from Mr. Creed of July last, that tells me 
that my Lord is rid of his pain (which was wind got into 
the muscles of his right side) and his feaver, and is now in 
hopes to go abroad in a day or two, which do give me mighty 
great comfort. 

15th. Walked to the Wardrobe, and dined with my Lady, 
and there told her of my Lord’s sicknesse, of which, though 
it hath been the town-talk this fortnight, she had heard noth- 
ing, and recovery, of which she was glad, though hardly 
persuaded of the latter. I found my Lord Hinchingbroke 
better and better, and the worst past. Thence to the Opera, 
which begins again to-day with “ The Witts,”* never acted 
yet with scenes; and the King and Duke and Duchess were 
there, who dined to-day with Sir H. Finch, reader at the 
Temple, in great state; and indeed it is a most excellent play, 
and admirable scenes. 

16th. At the office al the morning, though little to do; 
because all our clerkes are gone to the buriall of Tom Whit- 
ton, one of the Comptroller’s clerkes, a very ingenious and 
a likely young man to live, as any in the Office. But it is 
such a sickly time both in the City and country every where, 
of a sort of fever, that never was heard of almost, unless 
it was in a plague-time. Among others, the famous Tom 
Fuller is dead of it; and Dr. Nicholls,” Dean of Paul’s; and 
my Lord Generall Monk is very dangerously ill. Dined at 
home with the children, and were merry. My aunt Fenner 
is upon the point of death. 

17th. At the Privy Seale, where we had a seale this morn- 
ing. Then met with Ned Pickering, and walked with him 
into St. James’s Park, where I had not been a great while, 


1A comedy, by Sir W. Davenant. 

2 Matthew Nicholas, D.D., installed Dean of St. Paul’s, July 1660. 
Ob. Aug. 14, 1661. He was brother to Sir Edward Nicholas, Secre- 
tary of State. 


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and there found great and very noble alterations. And, 
in our discourse, he was very forward to complain and to 
speak loud of the lewdnesse and beggary of the Court, which 
I am sorry to hear, and which I am afraid will bring all 
to ruin again. I to the Opera, and saw “ The Witts ” again, 
which I like exceedingly. The Queen of Bohemia was here, 
brought by my Lord Craven.‘ Troubled in mind that I 
cannot bring myself to mind my business, but to be so much 
in love of plays. 

18th. (Lord’s day.) I took my wife and Mr. Sidney to 
my Lady to see my Lord Hinchingbroke, who is now pretty 
well again, and sits up, and walks about his chamber. To 
White Hall, and there hear that my Lord General Monk 
continues very ill; and then to walk in St. James’s Park, 
and saw a great variety of fowle which I never saw before. 
At night fell to read in “ Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity,” 
which Mr. Moore did give me last Wednesday very hand- 
somely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and 
love for his sake. 

19th. I am sent for to the Privy Seale, and there I found 
a thing of my Lord Chancellor’s* to be sealed this afternoon, 
and so I am forced to go to Worcester House,’ where 
severall Lords are met in Council this afternoon. And while 
I am waiting there, in comes the King in a plain common 
riding-suit and velvet cap, in which he seemed a very or- 
dinary man to one that had not known him. Home, and 


* William, first Earl of Craven, a Privy Councillor, and Colonel of 
the Coldstream Guards; supposed to be married to the Queen of 
Bohemia. Ob. 1697, aged 88. 


*This “thing” was probably one of those large grants which Cla- 
rendon quietly, or, as he himself says, “ without noise or scandal,” pro- 
cured from the King. Besides lands and manors, Clarendon states at 
one time that the King gave him a “little billet into his hand, that 
contained a warrant of his own hand-writing to Sir Stephen Fox to pay 
to the Chancellor the sum of 20,000/., of which nobody could have 
notice.” In 1662, he received 25,000]. out of the money voted to the 
King by the Parliament of Ireland, as he mentions in his vindication of 
himself against the impeachment of the Commons; and we shall see 
- the Pepys, in February, 1664, names another sum of 20,000/. given to 
the Chancellor to clear the mortgage upon Clarendon Park; and this 
last sum, it was believed, was paid from the money received from 
France by the sale of Dunkirk. 


*See ante, July 13, 1660. 
VOL. I. a 


210 DIARY OF [24th August, 


there I found that my Lady do keep the children at home, 
and lets them not come any more hither at present, which a 
little troubles me to lose their company. ‘This day my aunt 
Fenner dyed. 

20th. This day we come to some agreement with Sir R. 
Ford for his house to be added to the office to enlarge our 
quarters.* 

21st. I understand by Mr. Moore that my Lady Sandwich 
is brought to bed yesterday of a young Lady,” and is very 
well. To Mrs. Terry, who lately offered a proposal of her 
sister for a wife for my brother Tom;* and thence to Mrs. 
Wheatly’s, their mother, and there were well received, and 
she desirous to have the thing go forward, only is afraid that 
her daughter is too young, and portion not big enough, but 
offers 2001. down with her. The girl is very well favoured, 
and a very child, but modest, and one I think will do very 
well for my brother: so parted till she hears from Hatfield 
from her husband, who is there; but I find them very de- 
sirous of it, and so am I. To the Wardrobe, where I supped 
with the ladies,* and hear their mother is well, and the young 
child. 

22d. To the Privy-Seale, and sealed: so home at noon, 
and there took my wife by coach to my uncle Fenner’s, where 
there was both at his house and the Sessions great deal of 
company, but poor entertainment, which I wonder at; and 
the house so hot, that my uncle Wight, my father, and I 
were fain to go out, and stay at an alehouse awhile to cool 
ourselves. Then back again and to church—my father’s 
family being all in mourning, doing him the greatest honour, 
the world believing that he did give us it: so to church, and 
staid out the sermon. 

23d. To W. Joyce’s, where my wife was, and I took her 
to the Opera, and shewed her the “ Witts,” which I had seen 
already twice, and was most highly pleased with it. 

24th. Called to Sir W. Batten’s, to see the strange crea- 
ture that Captain Holmes hath brought with him from 
Guiny; it is a great baboon, but so much like a man in 
most things, that, though they say there is a species of them, 
yet I cannot believe but that it is a monster got of a man 


1See Aug. 31, 1661 ?See Sept. 3, 1661. 
®See Aug. 29, 1661. * Montagu. 


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and she-baboon. I do believe that it already understands 
much English, and I am of the mind that it might be taught 
to speak or make signs. ‘To the Opera, and there saw 
“Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke,” done with scenes very 
well, but above all, Betterton did the Prince’s part beyond 
imagination. 

25th. (Lord’s day.) Home; found my Lady Batten and 
her daughter to look something askew upon my wife, be- 
cause my wife do not buckle to them, and is not sollicitous 
for their acquaintance. 

26th. Casting up my father’s accounts, and upon the 
whole I find that all he hath in money of his owne due to him 
in the world is 45l., and he owes about the same summe: so 
that I cannot but think in what a condition he had left my 
mother, if he should have died before my uncle Robert. To 
the theatre, and saw the “ Antipodes,”* wherein there is much 
mirth, but no great matter else. I found a letter from my 
Lord Sandwich, who is now very well again of his feaver, but 
not yet gone from Alicante, where he lay sick, and was twice 
there bled. This letter dated the 22d July last, which puts 
me out of doubt of his being ill. 

27th. This morning to the Wardrobe, and there took 
leave of my Lord Hinchingbroke and his brother, and saw 
them go out by coach toward Rye in their way to France, 
whom God blesse. Then I was called up to my Lady’s 
bedside, where we talked an houre about Mr. Edward Mon- 
tagu’s disposing of the 50001. for my Lord’s preparation for 
Portugall, and our feares that he will not do it to my Lord’s 
honour, and less to his profit, which I am to enquire a 
little after. My wife and I to the theatre, and there saw 
“The Joyiall Crew,” where the King, Duke and Duchess, 
and Madame Palmer, were; and my wife, to her great con- 
tent, had a full sight of them all the while. The play full 
of mirth. 

28th. This day, I counterfeited a letter to Sir W. Pen, as 
from the thiefe that stole his tankard lately, only to abuse and 
laugh at him. 

29th. My aunt Bell come to dine with me, and we were 
very merry. Mr. Evans, the taylor, whose daughter we have 
had a mind to get a wife for Tom, told us that he hath not 

*A comedy, by Richard Brome, 
P2 


212 DIARY OF [31st August, 


to except against us or our motion, but that the estate that 
God hath blessed him with is too great to give, where there 
is nothing in present possession but a trade and house, and 
so we friendly ended. 

30th. My wife and I to Drury Lane to the French 
comedy, which was so ill done, and the scenes and company 
and everything else so nasty and out of order and poor, that 
I was sick all the while in my mind to be there. Here my 
wife met with a son of my Lord Somersett,' whom she 
knew in France, a pretty gentleman, but I shewed him no 
great countenance, to avoyd further acquaintance. That 
done, there being nothing pleasant but the foolery of the 
farce, we went home. 

31st. To Bartholomew faire, and there met with my 
Ladies Jemimah and Paulina, with Mr. Pickering and Ma- 
damoiselle,*at seeing the monkeys dance, which was much 
to see, when they could be brought to do so, but it troubled 
me to sit among such nasty company. After that, with 
them into Christ’s Hospitall, and there Mr. Pickering bought 
them some fairings, and I did give every one of them a 
bauble, which was the little globes of glass with things 
hanging in them, which pleased the ladies very well. After 
that, home with them in their coach, and there was called 
up to my Lady, and she would have me stay to talk with 
her, which I did I think a full houre. And the poor 
lady did with so much innocency tell me how Mrs. Crispe 
had told her that she did intend, by means of a lady that 
lies at her house, to get the King to be god-father to the 
young lady that she is in child-bed now of; but to see in 
what manner my Lady told it me, protesting that she sweat 
in the very telling of it, was the greatest pleasure to me 
in the world to see the simplicity and harmlessnesse of a 
lady. 

Thus ends the month. My mayde Jane newly gone, and 
Pall’ left now to do all the work till another mayde comes, 


1Lord John Somerset, second son of the first Marquis of Worcester, 
had himself three sons, Henry, Thomas and Charles, but it is uncertain 
which is here meant. There was no other Lord Somerset to whom the 
passage could apply. It was probably Thomas, as the other brothers 
were married. 


*The young ladies’ governess. * Paulina Pepys. 


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which shall not be till she goes away into the country with 
my mother. No money comes in, so that I have been 
forced to borrow a great deal for my own expenses, and 
to furnish my father, to leave things in order. I have 
some trouble about my brother Tom, who is now left to 
keep my father’s trade, in which I have great fears that he 
will miscarry for want of brains and care. At Court things 
are in very ill condition, there being so much emulacion, 
poverty, and the vices of drinking, swearing, and loose 
amours, that I know not what will be the end of it, but 
confusion. And the Clergy so high, that all people that I 
meet with do protest against their practice. In short, I 
see no content or satisfaction any where, in any one sort 
of people. The Benevolence’ proves so little, and an oc- 
casion of so much discontent every where, that it had better 
it had never been set up. I think to subscribe 201. We 
are at our Office quiet, only for lack of money all things 
go to rack. Our very bills offered to be sold upon the 
Exchange at 10 per cent. loss. We are upon getting Sir 
R. Ford’s house added to our office; but I see so many 
difficulties will follow in pleasing of one another in the di- 
viding of it, and in becoming bound personally to pay the 
rent of 2001. per annum, that I do believe it will yet scarce 
cdme to pass. The season very sickly everywhere of strange 
and fatel fevers. 

September Ist. (Lord’s day.) Last night being very 
rainy, [the water] broke into my house, the gutter being 
stopped, and spoiled all my ceilings almost. At church in 
the morning. After dinner we were very merry with Sir 
W. Pen about the loss of his tankard, though all be but a 
cheate, and he do not yet understand it; but the tankard 
was stole by Sir W. Batten, and the letter, as from the 
thief, wrote by me, which makes very good sport. Captain 
Holmes and I by coach to White Hall; in our way, I found 
him by discourse to be a great friend of my Lord’s, and he 
told me there was a many did seek to remove him; but they 
were old seamen, such as Sir J. Minnes,” but he would name 


*A voluntary contribution made by the subjects to their sovereign. 
Upon this occasion the clergy alone gave 33,743]. See 3lst May, 1661, 
ante. 

? John Mennes, or Minnes, born at Sandwich in 1598, educated» at 


214 DIARY OF [3d Sept. 


no more, though he do believe Sir W. Batten is one of them 
that do envy him, but he says he knows that the King do 
so love him, and the Duke of York too, that there is no 
fear of him. He seems to be very well acquainted with 
the King’s mind, and with all the several factions at Court, 
and spoke all with so much franknesse, that I do take him 
to be my Lord’s good friend, and one able to do him great 
service, being a cunning fellow, and one, by his own con- 
fession to me, that can put on two several faces, and look 
his enemies in the face with as much love as his friends. 
But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is 
this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and 
dissimulation. 

2d. Mr. Pickering and I to Westminster Hall again, and 
there walked an houre or two talking, and though he be 
a fool, yet he keeps much company, and will tell all he 
sees or hears, and so a man may understand what the com- 
mon talk of the town is. And I find that there are en- 
deavyours to get my Lord out of play at sea, which I believe 
Mr. Coventry and the Duke do think will make them more 
absolute; but I hope for all this, they will not be able to do 
it. My wife tells me that she met at Change with my young 
ladies of the Wardrobe, and there helped them to buy 
things, and also with Mr. Somersett, who did give her a 
bracelet of rings, which did a little trouble me, though I 
know there is no hurt yet in it, but only for fear of further 
acquaintance. 

3d. Dined at home, and then with my wife to the Ward- 
robe, where my Lady’s child was christened, my Lord Crewe 
and his lady, and my Lady Montagu, my Lord’s mother- 


Corpus Christi College, Oxford, became afterwards a great traveller and 
noted seaman: he held a place in the Navy Office during the reigns 
of the two elder Stuarts, and was knighted at Dover, in 1641, by 
Charles I. Adhering to the royal cause, he was, after the Restoration, 
appointed Governor of Dover Castle, and commanded the Henry, as a 
Vice-Admiral, in the fleet that brought Catharine of Braganza to Eng- 
land. Subsequently he was made Comptroller of the Navy, which 
office he retained till his death, in 1670-1. He is buried in the church 
of St. Olave, Hart Street, where, in the south aisle, part of a monument 
to his memory is still to be seen. Wood describes him as an honest 
and stout man, generous and religious, well skilled in physic and chy- 
mistry and the author of Musarum Delicia and other poems. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 215 


in-law, were the witnesses, and named Catherine,’ the Queen 
elect’s name; but to my and all our trouble, the Parson 
of the parish christened her, and did not sign the child with 
the sign of the cross. After that was done, we had a very 
fine banquet. 

4th. My wife come to me at Whitehall, and we went and 
walked a good while in St. James’s Parke, to see the brave 
alterations. 

5th. Put my mother and Pall into the waggon, and saw 
them going presently—Pall crying exceedingly. ‘To my 
uncle Fenner’s to dinner, in the way meeting a French 
footman® with feathers, who was in quest of my wife, and 
spoke with her privately, but I could not tell what it was, 
only my wife promised to go to some place to-morrow morn- 
ing, which do trouble my mind how to know whither it was. 
My wife and I to the fair, and I showed her the Italians 
dancing the ropes, and the women that do strange tumbling 
tricks. 

6th. I went to the Theatre, and saw “ Elder Brother ” 
acted; meeting here with Sir J. Askew, Sir Theophilus 
Jones,® and another knight, with Sir W. Pen, we to the 
Ship taverne, and there staid, and were merry till late at 
night. 

7th. Having appointed the young ladies at the Ward- 
robe* to go with them to the play to-day, my wife and I 
took them to the Theatre, where we seated ourselves close 
by the King and Duke of York, and Madame Palmer, 
which was great content; and, indeed, I can never enough 
admire her beauty. And here was “ Bartholomew Fayre,” 
with the puppet-showe, acted to-day, which had not been 
these forty years, it being so satyricall against Puritanism, 
they durst not till now, which is strange they should 
already dare to do it, and the King to countenance it, but 


1QLady Catherine Montagu, youngest daughter of Lord Sandwich, 
married first, Nicholas Bacon, eldest son and heir of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
K.B., of Shrubland Hall, co. Suffolk; and, secondly, the Rey. Baltha- 
zar Gardeman. She died January 15, 1757, et. 96 years, 4 months.— 
M. I. 

2 Apparently a servant of Mr. Somerset’s. 

$ Sir Theophilus Jones had represented the county of Dublin in Par- 
liament, and served as a colonel in the Commonwealth army. 


“Lord Sandwich’s family of daughters, 


216 DIARY OF [11th Sept. 


I do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, but 
rather the worse. ‘Thence home with the ladies, it being 
by reason of our staying a great while for the King’s 
coming, and the length of the play, near nine o’clock before 
it was done. _ 

8th. (Lord’s day.) To church, and coming home again, 
found our new mayd Doll asleep, that she could not hear 
to let us in, so that we were fain to send a boy in at a 
window to open the door to us. Begun to look over my 
accounts, and, upon the whole, I do find myself, by what 
I can yet see, worth near 600l., for which God be 
blessed. 

9th. To Salisbury Court play-house, where was acted 
the first time, “Tis pity shee’s a W—e,’”’ a simple play, 
and ill acted, only it was my fortune to sit by a most 
pretty and most ingenious lady, which pleased me much. 
To the Dolphin, to drink the 30s. that we got the other day 
of Sir W. Pen about his tankard. Here was Sir R. Slingsby, 
Holmes, Captain Allen, Mr. Turner, his wife and daughter, 
my Lady Batten, and Mrs. Martha, &c., and an excellent 
company of fiddlers; so we exceeding merry till late; and 
then we begun to tell Sir W. Pen the business, but he 
had been drinking to-day, and so is almost gone, that we 
could not make him understand it, which caused us more 
sport. 

11th. To Dr. Williams, who did carry me into his garden 
where he hath abundance of grapes: and he did show me 
how a dog that he hath do kill all the cats that come thither 
to kill his pigeons, and do afterwards bury them; and do 
it with so much care that they shall be quite covered; that 
if the tip of the tail hangs out, he will take up the cat 
again, and dig the hole deeper, which is very strange; and 
he tells me, that he do believe he hath killed above 100 cats. 
Home to my house to dinner, where I found my wife’s 
brother Balty*® as fine as hands could make him, and his 
servant, a Frenchman, to wait on him, and come to have 
my wife visit a young lady which he is a servant to, and 
have hope to trepan, and get for his wife. I did give 
way for my wife to go with him. Walking through Lin- 


*A tragedy, by John Forde. * Balthazar St. Michal. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 217 


coln’s Inn Fields, observed at the Opera a new play, 
“ Twelfth Night,” was acted there, and the King there: so 
I, against my own mind and resolution, could not forbear to 
go in, which did make the play seem a burthen to me; and 
I took no pleasure at all in it: and so, after it was done, 
went home with my mind troubled for my going thither, 
after my swearing to my wife that I would never go to a 
play without her. My wife was with her brother to see his 
mistress to-day, and says she is young, rich, and handsome, 
but not likely for him to get. 

12th. To my Lady’s to dinner at the Wardrobe; and in 
my way upon the Thames, I saw the King’s new pleasure- 
boat that is come now for the King to take pleasure in above 
bridge, and also two Gundaloes,’ that are lately brought, 
which are very rich and fine. Called at Sir W. Batten’s, 
and there heard that Sir W. Pen do take our jest of the 
tankard very ill, which I am sorry for. 

13th. I was sent for by my uncle Fenner to come and 
advise about the buriall of my aunt,’ the butcher, who died 
yesterday. Thence to the Wardrobe, where I found my 
wife, and thence she and I to the water to spend the after- 
noon in pleasure, and so we went to old George’s, and there 
eat as much as we would of a hot shoulder of mutton, and 
so to boat again and home. 

14th. Before we had dined comes Sir R. Slingsby, and his 
lady, and a great deal of company, to take my wife, and I 
out by barge, to shew them the King’s and Duke’s yachts. 
We had great pleasure, seeing all four yachts, viz., these 
two, and the two Dutch ones. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) To my aunt Kite’s in the morning, 
to help my uncle Fenner to put things in order against anon 
for the burial. After sermon, with my wife to the burial of 
my aunt Kite, where, besides us and my uncle Fenner’s 
family, there was none of any quality, but poor and rascally 
people. So we went to church with the corps, and there 


1“ Two long boats that were made in Venice, called gondolas, were 
by the Duke of Venice (Dominico Contareni) presented to His Majesty; 
and the attending watermen, being four, were in very rich clothes, crim- 
son satin; very big were their breeches and doublets; they wore also 
very large shirts of the same satin, very richly laced.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. 


?Mrs. Kite. 


218 DIARY OF [19th Sept. 


had service read at the grave, and back again with Pegg 
Kite, who will be, I doubt, a troublesome carrion’ to us 
executors, but if she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my 
executorship. 

16th. Word is brought me from my brother’s, that there 
is a fellow come from my father out of the country, on pur- 
pose to speak with me, and he made a story how he had 
lost his letter, but he was sure it was for me to come into 
the country, which I believed, but I afterwards found that 
it was a rogue that did use to play such tricks to get 
money of people, but he got none of me. Letters from my 
father informing me of the Court,’ and that I must come 
down and meet him at Impington, which I presently re- 
solved to do. 

17th. Got up, telling my wife of my journey, and she got 
me to hire her a horse to go along with me. So I went to 
my Lady’s, and of Mr. Townsend did borrow a very fine 
side-saddle for my wife, and so, after all things were ready, 
she and I took coach to the end of the towne towards 
Kingsland, and there got upon my horse, and she upon 
her pretty mare that I hired for her, and she rides very 
well. By the mare at one time falling, she got a fall. but 
no harm; so we got to Ware, and there supped, and went 
to bed. 

18th. Up early, and begun our march: the way about 
Puckridge very bad, and my wife, in the very last dirty 
place of all, got a fall, but no hurt, though some dirt. At 
last, she begun, poor wretch, to be tired, and I to be angry 
at it, but I was to blame; for she is a very good com- 
panion as long as she is well. In the afternoon, we got to 
Cambridge, where I left my wife at my cozen Angier’s, 
while I went to Christ’s College, and there found my 
brother in his chamber, and talked with him, and so to the 
barber’s, and then to my wife again, and remounted for 
Impington, where my uncle received me and my wife very 
kindly. 

19th. Up early, and my father and I alone talked about 


1A fling at the butcher’s trade. 


?The manorial Court of Graveley, in Huntingdonshire, to which 
Impington owed suit of service, and under which the Pepys’s copyhold 
estates were held. See July 8, 1661, ante. 


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our business, and then we all horsed away to Cambridge, 
where my father and I, having left my wife at the Beare, 
with my brother, went to Mr. Sedgewicke, the steward of 
Gravely, and there talked with him, but could get little 
hopes from anything that he would tell us; but at last I 
did give him a fee, and then he was free to tell me what 
I asked, which was something, though not much comfort. 
From thence to our horses, and, with my wife, went and 
rode through Sturbridge fayre, but the fayre was almost 
done. Set out for Brampton, where we come in very good 
time. 

20th. Will Stankes and I set out in the morning betimes 
for Gravely, where to an alehouse and drank, and then, going 
to the Court House, met my uncle Thomas and his son 
Thomas, with Bradly, the rogue that had betrayed us, and 
one Young, a cunning fellow, who guides them. I said 
little, till by and by that we come to the Court, which was 
a simple meeting of a company of country rogues, with 
the Steward, and two fellows of Jesus College, that are 
lords of the towne; and I producing no surrender, though 
I told them I was sure there is and must be one somewhere, 
they found my uncle Thomas heire at law,* as he is; and so 
my uncle was admitted and his son also in reversion. The 
father paid a year and a half for his fine, and the son half 
a year, in all, 48/., besides about 31. fees; so that I do 
believe the charges of his journeys, and what he gives 
those two rogues, and other expences herein, cannot be less 
than 7Ol., which will be a sad thing for him, if a sur- 
render be found. After all was done, I openly wished them 
joy in it. 

21st. After dinner (there coming this morning my aunt 
Hanes and her son from London, that is to live with my 
father), I rode to Huntingdon, and so to Hinchingbroke, 
where Mr. Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, 
which is yet very backward, and I fear will be very dark in 
the cloyster when it is done. 

22d. (Lord’s day.) To church, where we had common 
prayer, and a dull sermon by one Mr. Case, who yet I heard 
sing very well. 

23d. We took horse, and got early to Baldwick, where 

1To Robert Pepys, of Brampton. 


220 DIARY OF [27th Sept. 


there was a fair, and we put in, and eat a mouthfull of 
porke, which they made us pay 14d. for, which vexed 
me much. And so away to Stevenage, and staid till a 
showre was over, and so rode easily to Welling. We 
supped well, and had two beds in the room, and so lay 
single. 

24th. We rose, and set forth, but found a most sad altera- 
tion in the roade, by reason of last night’s rains, they being 
now all dirty and washy, though not deep. So we rode 
easily through, and only drinking at Holloway, at the 
sign of a woman with cakes in one hand, and a pot of ale 
in the other,’ which did give good occasion of mirth, re- 
sembling her to the mayd that served us, we got home 
very timely and well, and finding there all well, and 
letters from sea, that speak of my Lord’s being well, 
and his Action, though not considerable of any side, at 
Algiers.” 

25th. Sir W. Pen told me that I need not fear any re- 
flection upon my Lord for their ill successe at Argier, for 
more could not be done. Meeting Sir R. Slingsby in St. 
Martin’s Lane, he and I in his coach through the Mewes, 
which is the way that now all coaches are forced to go 
because of a stop at Charing Crosse, by reason of digging 
of a drayne there to clear the streets. To my Lord 
Crewe’s, and dined with him, where I was used with all 
imaginable kindness both from him and her. And I see 
that he is afraid my Lord’s reputacion will a little suffer im 
common talk by this late successe; but there is no help for 
it now. The Queen of England, as she is now owned and 
called, I hear, doth keep open court, and distinct at Lisbone. 
To the Theatre, and saw “The Merry Wives of Windsor ” 
ill done. 

26th. With my wife by coach to the Theatre, to shew her 
“ King and no King,” it being very well done. 

Q7th. At noon, met my wife at the Wardrobe; and there 
dined, where we found Captain Country,* my little Cap- 
tain that I loved, who carried me to the Sound, with some 
grapes and millons from my Lord at Lisbone, the first 


Probably the original of the well-known Mother Red-Cap. 
?These actions at Algiers have been engraved. 
8 Richard Country, Captain of the Hind, in the fleet at Scheveli. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 221 


that ever I saw; but the grapes are rare things. In the 
afternoon comes Mr. Edward Montagu, by appointment 
this morning, to talk with my Lady and me about the 
provisions fit to be bought and sent to my Lord along with 
him. And told us, that we need not trouble ourselves 
how to buy them, for the King would pay for all, and that 
he would take care to get them: which put my Lady and 
me into a great deal of ease of mind. Here we stayed 
and supped too; and, after my wife had put up some of 
the grapes in a basket for to be sent to the King, we took 
coach and home, where we found a hamper of millons sent 
to me also. 

28th. Sir W. Pen and his daughter, and I and my wife, 
to the Theatre, and there saw “ Father’s owne Son,’ a very 
good play, and the first time I ever saw it. 

29th. (Lord’s day.) What at dinner and supper I drink, 
I know not how, of my own accord, so much wine, that I 
was even almost foxed, and my head aked all night; so 
home and to bed, without prayers, which I never did yet, 
since I come to the house, of a Sunday night: I being 
now so out of order that I durst not read prayers, for 
fear of being perceived by my servants in what case I 
was. 

30th. This morning up by moon-shine, at five o’clock to 
Whitehall, to meet Mr. Moore at the Privy Seale, and there 
I heard of a fray between the two Embassadors of Spaine? 
and France ;’ and that, this day, being the day of the entrance 
of an Embassador from Sweden,* they intended to fight for 
the precedence.° Our King, I heard, ordered that no English- 


1The only mention of this play occurs in an enumeration of plays 
belonging to Will. Beston, as Governor of the Cockpit, in Drury Lane. 
The list is dated 10th Aug. 1639.—See Collier’s Annals of the Stage. 
li. 92. 

? The Baron de Batteville, or as it is often writen, Vatteville. 

®Godefroi d’Estrades, Marshal of France, and Viceroy of America. 
He proved himself, upon many occasions, an able diplomatist, and par- 
ticularly at the conference of Nimeguen, when acting as ambassador in 
1673. Ob. 1686, wet. suze 79. 

“The Count Brahé. 

‘This had been a frequent source of contention, and many absurd 
incidents had occurred. In 1618, Gaspar Dauvet, Comte des Marets, 
Ambassador to James I., left our Court in dissatisfaction upon a point 


222 DIARY OF [30th Sept. 


man should meddle in the business,’ but let them do what 
they would. And to that end all the soldiers in the town 
were in arms all the day long, and some of the train-bands 
in the City; and a great bustle through the City all the 
day. ‘Then we took coach, which was the business I come 
for, to Chelsey, to my Lord Privy Seale, and there got him 
to seal the business. Here I saw by day-light two very fine 
pictures in the gallery, that a little while ago I saw by night; 
and did also go all over the house, and found it to be the 
prettiest contrived house that ever I saw in my life. So 
back again; and at White Hall light, and saw the soldiers 
and people running up and down the streets. So I went to 
the Spanish Embassador’s and the French, and there saw 
great preparations on both sides; but the French made 
the most noise and ranted most, but the other made no stir 
almost at all; so that I was afraid the other would have too 
great a conquest over them. Then to the Wardrobe, and 
dined there, and then abroad and in Cheapside hear that the 
Spanish hath got the best of it, and killed three of the 
French coach-horses and several men, and is gone through 
the City next to our King’s coach; at which it is strange 
to see how all the city did rejoice. And indeed we do natu- 
rally all love the Spanish, and hate the French. But I, as 
I am in all things curious, presently got to the water-side, 
and there took oares to Westminster Palace, and run after 
them through all the dirt and the streets full of people; till 
at last, at the Mewes, I saw the Spanish coach go, with fifty 
drawn swords at least to guard it, and our soldiers shouting 


of precedence claimed by him over Gondomar, which was not allowed 
by James. The question now came to a crisis, and was settled. See 
Evelyn’s account, drawn up by Royal command, printed at the end of 
his Diary. 

1The Comte de Brienne insinuates, in his Memoirs, that Charles 
purposely abstained from interfering, in the betief that it was for his 
interest to let France and Spain quarrel, in order to further his own 
designs in the match with Portugal. Louis certainly held that opinion; 
and he afterwards instructed d’Estrades to solicit from the English 
Court the punishment of those Londoners who had insulted his Am- 
bassador, and to demand the dismissal of De Batteville. Either no 
Londoner had interfered, or Louis’s demand had not in England the 
same force as in Spain; for no one was punished. The latter part 
of his request it was clearly not for Charles to entertain, much less 
enforce. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 223 


for joy. And so I followed the coach, and then met it at 
York House, where the embassador lies; and there it went 
in with great state. So then I went to the French house, 
where I observe still that there is no men in the world of a 
more insolent spirit where they do well, nor before they be- 
gin a matter, and more abject if they do miscarry, than 
these people are; for they all look like dead men, and not a 
word among them, but shake their heads. The truth is, the 
Spaniards were not only observed to fight most desperately, 
but also they did outwitt them; first, in lining their own 
harnesse with chains of iron that they could not be cut, 
then in setting their coach in the most advantageous place, 
and to appoint men to guard every one of their horses, and 
others for to guard the coach, and others the coachmen. 
And, above all, in setting upon the French horses and kill- 
ing them, for by that means the French were not able to 
stir. ‘There were several men slain of the French, and one 
or two of the Spaniards, and one Englishman by a bullet.’ 
Which is very observable, the French were at least four to 
one in number;* and had near 100 case of pistols among 
them, and the Spaniards had not one gun among them; 
which is for their honour for ever and the others’ disgrace. 
So, having been very much daubed with dirt, I got a coach, 
and home; where I vexed my wife in telling of her this 
story, and pleading for the Spaniards against the French. 
So ends this month; myself and family in good condition 
of health, but my head full of my Lord’s and my own and 
the office business; where we are now very busy about 
sending forces to Tangier, and the fleet of my Lord of Sand- 
wich, who is now at Lisbone to bring over the Queen. The 
business of Algiers hath of late troubled me, because my 
Lord hath not done what he went for, though he did as 
much as any man in the world could have done. The want 
of money puts all things, and above all, the Navy, out of 


*This fray was the occasion of a good joke at the French Court, thus 
related in the Menagiana, vol. ii, p. 336:—‘Lors qu’on demandoit, 
‘Que fait Batteville en Angleterre?’ on repondoit, ‘I/] bat L’Estrade, ” 
This expression, as is well-known, means “battre le campagne avec 
de la cavalerie pour avoir des nouvelles des ennemis.”—Chambaud’s 
Dictionary. 

?The French accounts swell the number of the Spanish Ambassador’s 
attendants to 2000; 200 would, perhaps, be the truth. 


224 DIARY OF [4th Oct. 


order; and yet I do not see that the King takes care to 
bring in any money, but thinks of new designs to lay out 
money. 

October 2d. We went to the Theatre, but coming late, 
and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure 
in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that I ever 
saw it— Victoria Corombona.”* Methinks a very poor 


play. 

4th. By coach to White Hall with Sir W. Pen. So 
to Mr. Montagu, where his man, Monsieur Eschar, makes 
a great complaint against the English, that they did help 
the Spaniards against the French the other day; and that 
their Embassador do demand justice of our King,” and that 


*“The White Devil; or, the Life and Death of Victoria Corombona, 
the famous Venetian Courtesan,” by John Webster. 


*The courier sent by d’Estrades to Paris, with the news of his dis- 
comfiture, arrived at the hdtel of the Comte de Brienne (Louis-Henri 
de Lomenie, who had succeeded his father, Henri-Auguste, as Secretary 
of State) at eleven at night. Brienne instantly repaired to the King, 
then at supper with the Queen-Mother, his own Queen, and his brother, 
Philippe of Anjou (Monsieur); and, requesting Louis to appear com- 
posed before the numerous spectators, he told him that the Spanish 
Ambassador’s people had cut the traces of his Ambassador’s coach, 
killed two coachmen, and cut the horses’ bridles; and that the Spanish 
Ambassador’s coach had taken precedence of that of d’Estrades, whose 
own son had also been wounded in the affray. In spite of the caution 
which he had received, Louis rose up in such agitation, as nearly to 
overturn the table; seized Brienne by the arm, led him into the Queen- 
Mother’s chamber, and bade him read d’Kstrades’s despatch. The 
Queen-Mother followed in haste. ‘“ What is the matter?” said she.— 
“Tt is,” replied the King, “an attempt to embroil the King of Spain 
and myself.” The Queen-Mother begged him to return to the company. 
“T have supped, Madam,” said he, raising his voice. “I will be righted 
in this affair, or I will declare war against the King of Spain; and I 
will force him to yield precedence to my Ambassadors in every Court 
in Europe.”—* Oh, my son!” replied the Queen-Mother, “break not a 
peace which has cost me so dear; and remember, that the King of 
Spain is my brother.”—* Leave me, Madame,” rejoined Louis, “to hear 
d’Estrades’s despatch. Return to the table, and let some fruit only be 
prepared for me.” Anne of Austria having retired, Louis listened to 
the despatch, and instantly gave his commands to Brienne; which were, 
in substance, to order the Conde de Fuensaldagna, the Spanish Am- 
bassador, to quit France instantly, and to forbid the Marquis de las 
Fuentes, his intended successor, to set foot on the French territory; to 
recall his commissioners on the boundary question, as well as the Arch- 
bishop of Embrun, his Ambassador at Madrid—to demand from the 


‘ 


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he do resolve to be gone for France the next week; which 
I, and all that I met with, are glad of. I found my wife 
vexed at her people for grumbling to eate Suffolk chesse, 
which I also am vexed at.’ 

6th. (Lord’s day.) To church in the morning: Mr. Mills 
preached, who, I expect, should take it in snuffe that my 
wife did not come to his child’s christening the other day. 
The winter coming on, many of the parish ladies are come 
home, and appear at church again: among others, the three 
sisters of the Thornburys, very fine, and the most zealous 
people that ever I saw in my life, even to admiration, if it 
were true zeal. There was also my pretty black girl, Mrs. 
Dekins, and Mrs. Margaret Pen, this day come to church, 
in a new flowered satin suit, that my wife helped to buy her 
the other day. To church in the afternoon to St. Gregory’s 
by Paul’s, where I heard a good sermon of Dr. Buck’s,” one 
I never heard before. A very able man. 

7th. Troubled in my mind till I can hear from Brampton 


King of Spain an apology proportionable to the offence; that De Batte- 
ville should be punished in person; and that in all the Courts of 
Europe the Spanish Ambassador should give place to the French; and, 
on the refusal of any part of his demands, to declare war. Louis 
gained all and every point. After much paper war, and many protocols, 
Spain gave way. The Baron de Batteville was recalled; the Marques 
de las Fuentes was sent Ambassador Extraordinary to Paris, to tender 
apologies; and on March 24, 1662, in the presence of twenty-seven 
Ambassadors and Envoys from various Courts of Europe, the Marques 
de las Fuentes declared to Louis XIV. that the King, his master, had 
sent orders to all his Ambassadors and Ministers to abstain from all 
rivalry with those of Louis. Louis, turning to the foreign ministers, 
desired them to communicate this declaration to their masters. The 
Dutch Ambassador drily remarked, that he had heard of Embassies to 
tender obedience to the Pope, but that he had never before known of 
such from one prince to another. An amusing volume might be written 
on the absurd punctilios of the Ambassadors of the seventeenth century. 
A medal was struck by the French to commemorate this great event. 


1This prejudice extended to the days of Pope, whose country mouse 
entertained his courtly guests with 
“Cheese such as men in Suffolk make, 
But wished it Stilton for his sake.” 
Imitations of Horace, Sat. vi. b. 2d. 
See also Shadwell’s Works, vol. iv., p. 350. 


2James Buck, afterwards preacher at the Temple, a man of great 
learning, and rector of St. James’s, Garlickhithe, from 1661 till his 
death, at an advanced age, in 1685. 


VOL. I. Q 


226 DIARY OF [14th Oct. 


how things go on at Sturtlow, at the Court,’ which I was 
cleared in at night by a letter, which tells me that my cozen 
Tom was there to be admitted, in his father’s name, as 
heire-at-law; but that was opposed, and I was admitted 
by proxy, which puts me out of a great trouble of 
mind. 

8th. After office done, went and eat some Colchester 
oysters with Sir W. Batten, and there, with some company, 
dined and staid there talking all the afternoon, and late 
after dinner took Mrs. Martha out by coach, and carried 
her to the Theatre in a frolique, to my great expence, and 
there shewed her part of the “ Beggar’s Bush,” without 
much pleasure, and so home again. 

9th. Thinking to go with Sir Williams both to dinner, 
by invitation, to Sir W. Rider’s,” at home I found Mrs. 
Pierce, la belle, and Madam Clifford, with whom I was 
forced to stay, and made them the most welcome I could; 
and I was (God knows) very well pleased with their 
beautiful company. Frank Bagge tells me a story of Mrs. 
Pepys, that lived with my Lady Hardy,’ Mr. Montagu’s 
sister, a good woman, that she had been very ill, and often 
asked for me; that she is in high condition, and that nobody 
could get her to make her will; and that now she is well 
she desires to have a chamber at my house. Now, I do not 
know whether this is a trick of Bagge’s, or a good will of 
her’s to do something for me; but I will not trust her, but 
told him I should be glad to see her, and that I would be 
sure to do all that I could to provide a place for them. 

10th. Sir W. Pen, and my wife and I, to the Theatre, 
where the King come to-day, and there was “The 
Traytor,”’* most admirably acted; and a most excellent play 
it-is. 

13th. (Lord’s day.) This day left off half-skirts, and 
put on a wastecoate, and my false taby wastecoate with 
gold lace. 

14th. To Mr. Pim’s my Lord’s taylour’s, and there he 
went out with us to the Fountaine taverne, and it being 


1See Sept. 16, 1661, ante. 

2 At Bethnal Green; mentioned June 26, 1663. 

*A mistake for Harvey. She was the wife of Sir Daniel Harvey. 
*A tragedy, by James Shirley. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 227 


the Duke of York’s birthday, we drank the more to his 
health. 

17th. Captain Cock, a man of great observation and 
repute, did tell me, that he was confident that the Parlia- 
ment, when it comes the next month to sit again, would 
bring trouble with it, and enquire how the King had dis- 
posed of offices and money, before they will raise more; 
which, I fear, will bring all things to ruin again. Dined 
with Captain Lambert and his father-in-law, and had much 
talk of Portugall; from whence he is lately come, and he 
tells me it is a very poor dirty place; I mean the City and 
Court of Lisbone; that the King is a very rude and simple 
fellow; and, for reviling of somebody a little while ago, had 
been killed, had he not told them that he was their King. 
That there are no glass windows, nor will they have any; 
which makes sport among our merchants there to talk of an 
English factor that, being newly come thither, writ into 
England that glasse would be a good commodity to send 
thither, &c. That the King has his meat sent up by a 
dozen of lazy guards and in pipkins, sometimes, to his own 
table; and sometimes nothing but fruits, and, now and then, 
half a hen. And that now the Infanta is become our 
Queen, she is come to have a whole hen or goose to her 
table. 

18th. To White Hall, to Mr. Montagu’s, where I met 
with Mr. Pierce, the purser, to advise about the things to 
be sent to my Lord for the Queen’s provision; now there is 
all haste made, for the fleet’s going. 

19th. At the office all morning, and at noon Mr. Coven- 
try, who sat with us all this morning, and Sir G. Carteret, 
Sir W. Pen, and myself, by coach to Captain Marshe’s at 
Limehouse, to a house that hath been their ancestors for 
this 250 years, close by the lime-house, which gives the 
name to the place. Here they have a designe to get the 
King to hire a docke for the herring busses, which is now 
the great design on foot, to lie up in. We had a very good 
and handsome dinner and excellent wine. I not being neat 
in clothes, which I find a great fault in me, could not be so 
merry as otherwise, and at all times I am, and can be, when 
I am in good habitt, which makes me remember my father 

Q2 


228 DIARY OF [26th Oct. 


Osborne’s rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather 
than that. 

20th. (Lord’s day.) Much offended in mind at a proud 
trick my man Will hath got, to keep his hat on in the house, 
but I will not speak of it to him to-day, but I fear I shall 
be troubled with his pride and lazinesse, though in other 
things he is good enough. To church in the afternoon, 
where a sleepy Presbyter preached, and then to Sir W. Bat- 
ten, who is to go to Portsmouth to-morrow to wait upon the 
Duke of York, who goes to take possession, and to set in 
order the garrison there. 

21st. By coach to, Chelsey, to my Lord Privy Seale’s, 
but have missed of coming time enough. Mr. Paynter, 
the goldsmith, did make good sport of his losing so much 
by the King’s coming in, he having bought much of Crowne 
lands, of which, God forgie me! I am very glad. To the 
Opera, which is now newly begun to act again, after some 
alterations of their scene, which do make it very much 
worse; but the play, ‘“‘ Love and Honour,’ being the 
first time of their acting, it is a very good plot, and well 
done. 

22d. At the office all the morning, where we had a 
deputation from the Duke in his absence, he being gone to 
Portsmouth, for us to have the whole disposal and ordering 
of the Fleet. 

23d. To the Opera, and there I saw again ‘‘ Love and 
Honour,” and a very good play it is. This day all our office 
is invited against Tuesday next, my Lord Mayor’s day, to 
dinner with him at Guildhall. 

25th. I did give my man Will a sound lesson about 
his forbearing to give us the respect due to a master and 
mistress. 

26th. This morning Sir W. Pen and I should have gone 
out of town with my Lady Batten, to have met Sir William 
coming back from Portsmouth, at Kingston, but could not, 
by reason that my Lord of Peterborough,’ who is to go 


1A tragi-comedy, by Sir W. Davenant, first acted at the Black 
Friars. 

? Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough, a Privy Councillor, 
and in 1685, made Groom of the Stole. He was also K.G., and died 
in 1697. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 229 


governor of Tangier,’ come this morning, with Sir G. Carteret, 
to advise with us about completing of the affairs and prepa- 
racions for that place. My wife and I to the Theatre, and 
there saw “ The Country Captaine,” the first time it hath 
been acted this twenty-five years, a play of my Lord New- 
castle’s, but so silly a play as in all my life I never saw. 
News was brought that Sir R. Slingsby, our Comptroller, 
who hath this day been sick a week, is dead; which put me 
into so great a trouble of mind, that all the night I could 
not sleep, he being a man that loved me, and had many 
qualitys that made me to love him, above all the officers 
and commissioners in the Navy. 

27th. (Lord’s day.) At church in the morning, where in 
the pew both Sir Williams’ and I had much talk about the 
death of Sir Robert, which troubles me much; and them in 
appearance, though I do not believe it; because I know that 
he was a cheque to their engrossing the whole trade of the 
Navy-office. To church, my wife with me, whose mourning 
is now grown so old that I am ashamed to go to church 
with her. 

28th. To the Theatre, and there saw “‘ Argulaus and Par- 
thenia,” where a woman acted Parthenia, and come after- 
wards on the stage in men’s clothes, and had the best legs 
that ever I saw, and I was very well pleased with it. Thence 
to the King’s ale-house, and thither sent for a belt-maker, 


1This place, so often mentioned, was first given up to the English 
fleet under Lord Sandwich, by the Portuguese, January 30, 1662; and 
Lord Peterborough left governor, with a garrison. The greatest pains 
were afterwards taken to preserve the fortress, and a fine mole was con- 
structed at a vast expense, to improve the harbour. At length, after 
immense sums of money had been wasted there, the House of Com- 
mons expressed a dislike to the management of the garrison, which they 
suspected to be a nursery for a popish army, and seemed disinclined to 
maintain it any longer. The King consequently, in 1683, sent Lord 
Dartmouth to bring home the troops, and destroy the works; which he 
performed so effectually, that it would puzzle all our engineers to re- 
store the harbour. It were idle to speculate on the benefits which 
might have accrued to England, by its preservation and retention; 
Tangier fell into the hands of the Moors, its importance having ceased 
with the demolition of the mole. Many curious views of Tangier were 
taken by Hollar, during its occupation by the English; and his draw- 
ings are preserved in the British Museum. Some have been engraved 
by himself; but the impressions are of considerable rarity. 


?Sir W. Pen and Sir W. Batten, so styled passim, 


230 DIARY OF [ 2d Noy. 


and bought of him a handsome belt for second mourning, 
which cost me 24s. and is very neat. 

29th. This day I put on my half cloth black stockings 
and my new coate of the fashion, which pleases me well, and 
with my bever* I was, after office was done, ready to go to 
my Lord Mayor’s feast, as we are all invited; but the Sir 
Williams were both loth to go, because of the crowd, and 
so none of us went. My mind not pleased, because I had 
proposed a great deal of pleasure to myself this day at 
Guildhall. This Lord Mayor, it seems, brings up again the 
custom of Lord Mayors going the day of their instalment 
to Paul’s, and walking round about the Crosse, and offering 
something at the altar. 

30th. At Sir W. Batten’s heard how he had been already 
at Sir R. Slingsby’s, as we were all invited and I intended 
this night to go [to his funeral], and there he finds all things 
out of order, and no such thing done to-night, but pre- 
tending that the corps stinks they will bury it to-night 
privately, and so will unbespeak all their guests, and there 
shall be no funerall, which I am sorry for, that there should 
be nothing done for the honour of Sir Robert, but I fear he 
hath left his family in great distraction. Sir Henry Vane, 
Lambert, and others, are lately sent suddenly away from the 
Tower, prisoners to Scilly; but I do not think there is any 
plot, as is said, but only a pretence; as there was once pre- 
tended often against the Cavaliers. 

31st. With my mind full of trouble, to my uncle Fenner’s, 
when at the alehouse I found him drinking, and very jolly 
and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time 
get him a wife. 

November Ist. To the Theatre, to ‘* The Jovial Crew.” 
‘At my house Sir William sent for his son, Mr. William Pen,’ 
lately come from Oxford. 

2d. At the office all the morning; where Sir John Minnes, 
our new comptroller, was fetched by Sir William Pen and 


Doubtless the same mentioned June 27, 1661. It was a “ chapeau 
de poil,’” a mark of some distinction in those days, and which gave 
name to Rubens’s famous picture, now in Sir Robert Peel’s collection, of 
a lady in a beaver hat, or “chapeau de poil.” This having been cor- 
rupted into “ chapeau de paille,” has led to much ignorant conjecture, 


? The celebrated Quaker, and founder of Pennsylvania, 


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myself from Sir William Batten’s, and led to his place in the 
office: the first time that he had come thither, and he seems 
in a good fair condition, and one that I am glad hath the 
office. 

3d. (Lord’s day.) At night, my wife and I had a good 
supper by ourselves of a pullet hashed, which pleased me 
much to see my condition come to allow ourselves a dish 
like that. 

4th. With my wife to the Opera, where we saw “ The 
Bondman,” which of old we both did so doate on, and do 
still; though to both our thinking not so well acted here, 
having too great expectations, as formerly at Salisbury 
Court. But for Betterton," he is called by us both the best 
actor in the world. 

5th. To the Dolphin, where Armiger and I, and Captain 
Cocke, sat late and dranke much, seeing the boys in the 
streets flying their crackers. This day being kept all the 
day very strictly in the city. 

7th. I met with letters at home from my Lord at Lisbone, 
which speak of his being well; and he tells me he had seen 
at the court there, the day before he wrote this letter, the 
Juego de Toro.” Peg Kite now hath declared she will have 
the beggarly rogue the weaver, and so we are resolved neither 
to meddle nor make with her. 

8th. This morning up early, and to my Lord Chancellor’s. 
with a letter to him from my Lord, and did speak with him: 
and he did ask me whether I was son to Mr. Talbot Pepys*® 
or no (with whom he was once acquainted in the Court of 
Requests), and spoke to me with great respect. To the 
Sun in New Fish Street, where Sir J. Minnes, Sir William 


1Thomas Betterton, the celebrated actor, born in 1635, was the son 
of an under-cook to Charles I., and first appeared on the stage at the 
Cockpit in Drury Lane, in 1659. After the Restoration, two distinct 
theatres were established by royal authority; one in Brydges Street, 
Drury Lane, called the King’s Company, under a patent granted to 
Killigrew; the other in Portugal Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, styled 
the “ Duke’s Company,” the patentee of which was Sir W. Davenant, 
who engaged Betterton in 1662. The site was recently Alderman 
Copeland’s Staffordshire Pottery Warehouse, since pulled down. Bet- 
terton died in 1710, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster 
Abbey. 

7A bull-fight. See May 24, 1662. 


Of Impington, great uncle to our author. 


232 DIARY OF [12th Nov. 


Batten, and we all were to dine, and by discourse found 
Sir J. Minnes a fine gentleman and a very good scholler. 

9th. With my Lady all the afternoon. My Lady did 
mightily urge me to lay out money upon my wife, which 
I perceived was a little more earnest than ordinary, and so 
I seemed to be pleased with it, and do resolve to bestow a 
lace upon her. 

10th. (Lord’s day.) At St. Gregory’s, where I hear our 
Queen Katherine the first time by name publickly prayed 
for." And heard Dr. Buck’ upon ‘Woe unto thee, 
Corazin,” &c., where he started a difficulty, which he left 
to another time to answer, about why God should give 
means of grace to those peeple which he knew would not 
receive them, and deny to others, which he himself con- 
fesses, if they had had them, would have received them, and 
they would have been effectuall too. I would I could hear 
him explain this, when he do come to it. 

11th. Captain Ferrers carried me the first time that ever 
I saw any gaming-house, to one, entering into Lincolne’s- 
Inn-Fields, at the end of Bell Yard, where strange the folly 
of men to lay and lose so much money, and very glad I was 
to see the manner of a gamester’s life, which I see is very 
miserable, and poor, and unmanly. And thence he took 
me to a dancing schoole in Fleet Streete, where we saw a 
company of pretty girles dance, but I do not in myself like 
to have young girls exposed to so much vanity. So to the 
Wardrobe, where I found my Lady had agreed upon a lace 
for my wife at 6l., which I seemed much glad of that it was 
no more, though in my mind I think it too much, and I 
pray God to keep me so to order myself, and my wife’s ex- 
pences, that no inconvenience in purse or honour follow this 
my prodigality. 

12th. My wife and I to “ Bartholomew Fayre,” with 
puppets, which I had seen once before, and the play with- 
out puppets often, but though I love the play as much 
as ever I did, yet I do not like the puppets at all, but 


1The King’s letter to the council for this purpose was read on No- 
vember 19. 

?Probably John Buck, D.D.,who was Vicar of Stradbrook, Suffolk, 
and published in 1660, a Thanksgiving Sermon, preached at St. Paul’s 
—Watt’s Bibl. Britan. 


cS ee 


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think it to be a lessening to it. This day Holmes come 
to town; and we do expect hourly to hear what usage 
he hath from the Duke and the King about his late business 
of letting the Swedish Embassador' go by him, without 
striking his flag.” 

13th. By appointment, we all went this morning to wait 
upon the Duke of York, which we did in his chamber, as he 
was dressing himself in his riding suit to go this day by sea 
to the Downes. He is in mourning for his wife’s grand- 
mother,’ which is thought a great piece of fondness [folly]. 
After we had given him our letter relating the bad condition 
of the Navy for want of money, he referred it to his coming 
back, and so we parted. Thence on foot to my Lord 
Crewe’s; here I was well received by my Lord and Sir 
Thomas; with whom I had great talk: and he tells me in 
good earnest that he do believe the Parliament, which comes 
to sit again the next week, will be troublesome to the Court 
and Clergy, which God forbid! But they see things carried 


1The Count Brahé. 


2And that, too, in the river Thames itself. The right of obliging 
ships of all nations to lower topsails, and strike their flag to the En- 
glish, whilst in the British seas, and even on the French coasts, had, up 
to this time, been rigidly enforced. When Sully was sent by Henry 
IV., in 1603, to congratulate James I. on his accession, and in a ship 
commanded by a Vice-Admiral of France, he was fired upon by the 
English Admiral Mansel, for daring to hoist the flag of France in the 
presence of that of England, although within sight of Calais. The 
French flag was lowered, and all Sully’s remonstrances could obtain no 
redress for the alleged injury. According to Rugge, Holmes had in- 
sisted upon the Swede’s lowering his flag, and had even fired a shot to 
enforce the observance of the usual tribute of respect, but the Ambas- 
sador sent his secretary and another gentleman on board the English 
frigate, to assure the captain, upon the word and honour of an Ambas- 
sador, that the King, by a verbal order, had given him leave and a dis- 
pensation in that particular, and upon this false representation he was 
allowed to proceed on his voyage without further question. This want 
of caution, and disobedience of orders, fell heavily on Holmes, who was 
imprisoned for two months, and not re-appointed to the same ship. 
Brahé afterwards made a proper submission, for the fault he had com- 
mitted, at his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry 
Wotton’s definition of an ambassador—that he is an honest man sent to 
lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term, lieger- 
Ambassador. 


*The absurd story that she was a brewer’s daughter, is well refuted 
in Notes and Queries, vol. vii. p. 211. 


234 DIARY OF [18th Noy. 


so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money 
themselves, that they will not endure it. Home by coach, 
with my mind very heavy at this my expencefull life, which 
will undo me, I fear, after all my hopes, if I do not take up, 
for now I am coming to lay out a great deal of money in 
clothes for my wife, I must forbear other expences. 

14th. To a dinner of young Mr. Bernard’s for myself, Mr. 
Phillips, Davenport, Weaver, &c., where we had a most ex- 
cellent dinner, but a pie of such pleasant variety of good 
things, as in all my life I never tasted. 

15th. At noon with my wife to the Wardrobe to dinner, 
and there did show herself to my Lady in the handkercher 
that she bought the lace for the other day, and indeed it is 
very handsome. ‘To the Opera, where I met my wife and 
Captain Ferrers, and Madamoiselle Le Blanc, and there did 
see the second part of “The Siege of Rhodes” very well 
done; and so by coach set her home, and the coach driving 
down the hill through Thames Street, which I think never 
any coach did before from that place to the bridge-foot, but 
going up Fish Street Hill, his horses were so tired, that 
they could not be got to go up the hill, though all the street 
boys and men did beat and whip them. At last, I was 
fain to send my boy for a linke, and so light out of the 
coach till we got to another, at the corner of Fenchurch 
Street, and so home. 

17th. (Lord’s day.) To our own church, and at noon, by 
invitation, Sir W. Pen dined with me, and I took Mrs. 
Hester, my Lady Batten’s kinswoman, to dinner from 
church with me, and we were very merry. To church; 
and heard a simple fellow upon the praise of church 
musique, and exclaiming against men’s wearing their hats 
on in the church. To church [again], but slept part of 
the sermon. 

18th. At St. Paul’s, where I saw the quiristers in their 
surplices going to prayers, and a few idle people and boys to 
hear them, which is the first time I have seen them, and am 
sorry to see things done so out of order. To the Theatre, 
to see “ Philaster,”? which I never saw before, but I found 
it far short of my expectations. 


1“ Philaster; or, Love lies a-bleeding,” a tragedy, by Beaumont and 
Fletcher. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 235 


19th. Took coach as far as my cozen Scott’s, and my 
wife and I staid there at the christening of my cozen’s 
boy, where my cozen Samuel Pepys of Ireland and I were 
godfathers, and I did name the child Samuel. There was 
a company of pretty women there in the chamber, but we 
staid not, but went with the minister into another room, 
and eat and drank—my she-cousin Stradwick being god- 
mother. It cost me 20s. between the midwife and the two 
nurses to-day. 

20th. To Westminster Hall by water in the morning, 
where I saw the King going in his barge to the Parliament 
House; this being the first day of their meeting again; and 
the Bishops, I hear, do take their places in the Lords’ 
House this day. I walked longe in the Hall, but hear 
nothing of newes, but what Ned Pickering tells me, which 
I am troubled at, that Sir J. Minnes should send word to 
the King, that if he did not remove all my Lord Sandwich’s 
captains out of this fleet, he believed the King would not be 
master of the fleet at its coming again: and so do endeavour 
to bring disgrace upon my Lord; but I hope all that will 
not do for the King loves him. To the Wardrobe, and 
dined with my Lady—my Lady Wright’ being there too, 
whom I find to be a witty but very conceited woman, and 
proud. Lay long reading “ Hobbs his Liberty and Neces- 
sity,” and a little but very shrewd piece. 

21st. Mr. Moore showed me his old “Camden’s Britan- 
nica,” which I intend to buy of him, and took it away with 
me, and left it at St. Paul’s Churchyard to be bound. At 
the office all the afternoon; it being the first afternoon that 
we have sat, which we are now to do always, so long as the 
Parliament sits, who this day have voted the King 1,200,0001., 
to be raised to pay his debts. 

22d. At noon with my wife, by appointment, to dinner at 
the Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten and his lady, and daughter 
Matt,” and Captain Cook and his lady, a German lady, but 
a very great beauty, and we dined together, at the spending 
of some wagers won and lost between him and I; and there 
we had the best musique and very good songs, and were 
very merry, and danced, but I was most of all taken with 


See March 27, 1660, ante. Lady Wright lived till 1708. 
? Martha Batten. 


236 DIARY OF [27th Nov. 


Madam Cook and her little boy, which in mirth his father 
had given to me. But after all our mirth comes a reckon- 
ing of 41., besides 4s. of the musicians, which did trouble us, 
but it must be paid, and so I took leave, and left them there 
about eight at night. 

23d. To Cheapside, to one Savill,’ a painter, who I intend 
shall do my picture and my wife’s. 

24th. (Lord’s day.) Up early, and by appointment to 
St. Clement’s Danes* to church, and there to meet Captain 
Cook, who had often commended Mr. Alsopp, their minister, 
to me, who is indeed an able man, but as to all things else 
did not come up to my expectations. His text was, that all 
good and perfect things are from above. 

25th. To Westminster with Captain Lambert, and there 
he did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, 
his foy,*’ he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights. 
Here we had oysters and good wine. With Sir W. Pen, 
and Major-General Massy, who I find by discourse to be a 
very ingenious man, and among other things a great master 
in the surveys of powder and fire-works, and another knight 
to dinner, at the Swan, in the Palace-Yard, and our meat 
brought from the Legg; and after dinner to the Theatre, 
and there saw “ The Country Captain;” and that being 
done, I left Sir W. Pen with his songs, and went to the 
Opera, and saw the last act of ** The Bondman,” and there 
found Mr. Sanchy and Mrs. Mary Archer, sister to the fair 
Betty, whom I did admire at Cambridge, and thence took them 
to the Fleece* in Covent Garden; but Mr. Sanchy could not 
by any argument get his lady to trust herself with him into 
the taverne, which he was much troubled at, and so we 
returned immediately into the city by coach, and then set 
her at her uncle’s in the Old Jury. 

27th. To Savill’s, the painter, and there sat the first time 
for my face with him: thence to dinner with my Lady; and 
so after an hour or two’s talk in divinity with my Lady, 


1No notice of this artist has been discovered. 


2So called, because Harold, the Danish king, and others of his 
countrymen, were there buried. 


8A merry-making given at parting —Halliwell’s Dictionary. 
*See the account of this tavern, Dec. 1, 1660, ante. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 237 


Captain Ferrers, and Mr. Moore and I, to the Theatre, and 
there saw “Hamlett ” very well done. 

28th. Letters from my Lord Sandwich, from Tangier ;* 
where he continues still, and hath done some execution 
upon the Turks, and retaken an Englishman from them,’ 
one Mr. Parker, a merchant in Marke Lane. ‘To the Chan- 
cellor’s, and there met with Mr. Dugdale, and with him 
and one Mr. Symons, I think that belongs to my Lord 
Hatton,’ and Mr. Kipps and others, to the Fountaine ta- 
verne. 

29th. I lay long in bed, till Sir Williams both sent me 
word that we were to wait upon the Duke of York to-day; 
and that they would have me to meet them at Westmin- 
ster Hall, at noon: so I rose and went thither; and there 
I understand that they are gone to Mr. Coventry’s lodgings, 
in the Old Palace Yard, to dinner, the first time that I 
knew he had any;* and there I met them, and Sir G. Carte- 
ret, and had a very fine dinner, and good welcome, and 
discourse; and so, by water, after dinner, to White Hall, to 
the Duke, who met us in his closet; and there he did dis- 
course upon the business of Holmes,’ and did desire of us 
to know what hath been the common practice about making 
of forrayne ships to strike sail to us, which they did all 
do as much as they could; but I could say nothing to it, 
which I was sorry for. After we were gone from the Duke, 
I told Mr. Coventry that I had heard Mr. Selden® often 
say, that he could prove that in Henry the 7th’s time, he did 
give commission to his captains to make the King of Den- 
mark’s ships to strike to him’ in the Baltique. Sir W. 


1Lord Sandwich’s Journal has been printed by Kennett. See note 
to Feb. 20, 1661-62. 


The Ironmongers’ Company possess in trust an enormous sum, left 
by Thomas Betton, for the redemption of Christian slaves in Barbary. 
Since Lord Exmouth’s expedition, no claims have arisen upon the 
fund, which is now administered for other purposes, under the direc- 
tion of the Court of Chancery. 

8 Christopher, first Lord Hatton. Ob. 1670. 

*This may be dinner or lodgings. 

5See 12th Nov. 1661, ante. ®See Selden’s Mare Clausum. 

™The tables were in vain attempted to be turned in May, 1670, when 
Arthur Capel, the first Earl of Essex, sent as Ambassador Extraordinary 
to Denmark in a ship of war, was thrice fired upon with shot by 


238 DIARY OF [2d Dec. 


Pen and I to the Theatre, but it was so full that we could 
hardly get any room, so we went up to one of the boxes, 
and into the 18d. places, and there saw ‘ Love at First 
Sight,” a play of Mr. Killigrew’s, and the first time that 
it hath been acted since before the troubles, and a great ex- 
pectation there was, but I found the play to be a poor 
thing, and so I perceive every body else do. Home, calling 
at St. Paul’s Churchyard for a Mare Clausum, having it 
in my mind to write a little matter, what I can gather, 
about the business of striking sayle, and present it to the 
Duke, which I now think will be a good way to make myself 
known. 

30th. The old condemned judges of the late King have 
been brought before the Parliament, and like to be hanged. 
I am deep in Chancery with Tom Trice. God give a good 
issue. This is the last day for the old State coyne to pass 
in common payments, but they say it is to pass in publique 
payments to the King three months still. 

December 1st. (Lord’s day.) Mr. Sanchy should have 
brought his mistress, Mrs. Mary Archer, of Cambridge, but 
she could not come; but we had a good dinner for him. 
Cut a brave collar of brawne from Winchcombe, which 
proves very good, and also opened the glass of girkins 
which Captain Cock’ did give my wife the other day, which 
are rare things. There hath lately been great clapping 
up of some old statesmen, such as Ireton, Moyer,” and 
others, and they say, upon a great plot, but I believe no 
such thing; but it is but justice that they should be served 
as they served the poor Cavaliers; and I believe it will 
oftentimes be so, as long as they live, whether there be 
cause or no. 


2d. Called on by Mr. Sanchy and his mistress, and with 


Major-General Holke, who commanded the Castle of Cronenburg, which 
Essex had neglected or refused to salute. Charles did not submit 
tamely to this insult. Essex was ordered to obtain the fullest repara- 
tion, and he did so promptly. On the 19th of the same month, Sir 
John Trevor, Secretary of State, acknowledged the good success which 
Lord Essex had had “about the flagg. His Majesty received your 
letter with great satisfaction, which came seasonably to be declared here 
before the French Court. The satisfaction you have obtained is ab- 
solute, and a full renounce to all that pretence on their part.” 


* Cook. *Samuel Moyer, one of the Council of State, 1653. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 239 


them by coach to the Opera. to see “The Madd Lover,’ 
but not much pleased with the play. 

3d. To the paynter’s,’ and sat and had more of my pic- 
ture done, but it do not please me, for I fear it will not 
be like me. 

4th. I saw a man lie dead upon Westminster Stairs that 
had been drowned yesterday. 

6th. To White Hall, where, at Sir G. Carteret’s, Sir 
Williams both and I dined very pleasantly; and after dinner, 
by appointment, came the Governors of the East India 
Company,’ to sign and seal the contract between us, in the 
King’s name and them. And, that done, we all went to the 
King’s closet, and there spoke with the King and the Duke 
of York, who promise to be very careful of the India trade 
to the utmost. 

7th. This morning comes Captain Ferrers and the Ger- 
man, Emanuel Luffe, who goes as one of my Lord’s foot- 
men, though he deserves a much better preferment, to take 
their leave of me, and here I got the German to play upon 
my theorbo. Within a quarter of an hour after they were 
gone, comes the German back again, all of a goare of blood, 
which I wondered at, and tells me that he is afraid that the 
Captain is killed by the watermen at Tower Stayres; so I 
presently went thither, and found that upon some rude 
pressing of the watermen to ply the Captain, he struck one 
of them with his cane,* which they would not take, but 
struck him again, and then the German drew his sword, 
and run at one of them, but they were both soundly beaten. 
The Captain is, however, got to the hoy that carries him 
and the pages to the Downes, and I went into the alehouse 
at the Stayres, and got them to deliver the captain’s 
feathers, which one from the Captain was come to demand. 
Home again, and there found my wife dressing of the Ger- 
man’s head, and so did [give] him a cravett for his neck, 
and a crowne in his purse, and sent him away again. To 


* By John Fletcher. Savill. See 23d Nov. 1661. 

®°The important charter had been granted to the Company in the 
April previous. Bombay, just acquired, as part of Queen Katherine’s 
dowry, was not made over to the Company by Charles until 1668. 

*See a similar outrage, committed by Captain Ferrers, 12th Sept. 
1662. Swords were usually worn by footmen. See 4th May, 1662, 
post. 


240 DIARY OF [11th Dee. 


the Privy Seale, and sealed there; and among other things 
that passed, there was a patent for Roger Palmer, Madame 
Palmer’s husband, to be Earle of Castlemaine* and Baron 
of Limbricke in Ireland; but the honor is tied up to the 
males got of the body of his wife, the Lady Barbary: the 
reason whereof everybody knows. ‘That done, by water to 
the office, where I found Sir W. Pen, and with him Captain 
Holmes, who had wrote his case, and gives me a copy, as he 
hath many among his friends, and presented the same to the 
King and Council, which I have made use of in my attempt 
of writing something concerning the business of striking 
sail, which I am now about;” but he do cry out against Sir 
John Minnes, as the veriest knave and rogue and coward in 
the world. 

8th. (Lord’s day.) Good discourse with my Lady of the 
great christening yesterday at Mr. Rumbell’s, and courtiers 
and pomp that was there, which I wonder at. 

9th. At noon to dinner at the Wardrobe; where my Lady 
Wright was, who did talk much upon the worth and the 
desert of gallantry: and that there was none fit to be cour- 
tiers, but such as have been abroad and know fashions; 
which I endeavoured to oppose: and was troubled to hear 
her talk so, though she be a very wise and discreet lady in 
other things. 

10th. To dinner to my Lord Crewe’s, by coach, and in my 
way had a stop of above an hour and a half, which is great 
trouble this Parliament time, but it cannot be helped. How- 
ever, I got thither before my Lord come from the House, 
and so dined with him. 

11th. My wife by coach to Clerkenwell, to see Mrs. Mar- 
garet Pen, who is at schoole there. 


Ob. July, 1705. 


Pepys seems not to have been aware at the time that Sir John 
Burroughs, Keeper of the Records, temp. Car. I., had written a Trea- 
tise on the Sovereignty of the British Seas, copies of which, both in 
Latin and English, are common, and one of which is in the Pepysian 
Library; neither had he discovered that William Ryley, the Herald, 
Deputy Keeper of the Records, whom he knew personally, had also 
written on the subject, and had made extracts from the Records. 
Ryley’s collections appear to have belonged to James II., and were 
probably made for him at this time. The Duke of Newcastle after- 
wards possessed them, and they are now in the British Museum. 


1661] SAMUEL PEPYS 241 


12th. Dined with my Lady, where her brother, Mr. 
John Crewe, dined also, and a strange gentlewoman dined at 
the table as a servant of my Lady’s; but I knew her not, 
and so I was afraid that poor Mademoiselle’ was gone; but 
I since understand that she is come as housekeeper to my 
Lady, and is a married woman. 

13th. With my wife to the painter’s,? and there she sat 
the first time to be drawn, while I all the while stood looking 
on a pretty lady’s picture, whose face did please me ex- 
tremely. At last, he having done, I found that the dead 
colour of my wife is good, above what I expected, which 
pleased me exceedingly. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) I am now full of study about writing 
something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; 
and so am altogether reading Selden aud Grotius, and such 
other authors to that purpose. 

16th. After dinner to the Opera, where there was a new 
play, Cutter® of Coleman Street, made in the year 1658, 
with reflections much upon the late times; and it being 
the first time, the pay was doubled, and so to save money, 
my wife and I went into the gallery, and there sat and saw 
very well; and a very good play it is—it seems of Cowley’s 
making. 

21st. To White Hall, to the Privy Seale, as my Lord 
Privy Seale did tell me he could seale no more this month, 
for he goes thirty miles out of towne, to keep his Christ- 
mas. At which I was glad, but only afraid lest any thing 
of the King’s should force us to go after him to get a seale 
in the country. Taken by some Exchequer men to the 
Dogg, where, it being St. Thomas’s day, by custome, they 
have a general meeting at dinner. There I was, and all 
very merry. I spoke to Mr. Falconberge to look whether 
he could, out of Domesday Book,* give me anything con- 
cerning the sea, and the dominion thereof; which he says 
he will look after. This evening my wife come home from 
christening Mrs. Hunt’s son, his name John, and a mer- 


1See Nov. 15, 1661, ante. ? Savill’s. 


’Cutter, in old English, means a swagger; hence the title of the 
play. It was originally called “The Guardian,” when acted before 
royalty at Cambridge. 

*What idea could Pepys have formed of Doomsday Book? 


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242 DIARY OF [28th Dec. 


chant in Marke Lane come along with her, that was her 
partner. 

22d. (Lord’s day.) My wife and I to church, and there 
in the pew, with the rest of the company, was Captain 
Holmes, in his gold-laced suit, at which I was troubled. 

23d. Lighting at my - bookseller’s [Kirton’s], in St. 
Paul’s churchyard, I met there with Mr. Cromlum, and 
the second master of Paul’s School, and thence I took 
them to the Starr, and there we sat and talked, and ft 
had great pleasure in their company, and very glad I was of 
meeting him so accidentally, I having omitted too long to 
go to see him. Here in discourse of books I did offer to 
give the schoole what book he would choose of 51. So we 
parted. 

25th. In the morning to church, where at the door of our 
pew I was fain to stay, because that the sexton had not 
opened the door. A good sermon of Mr. Mills. 

26th. After dinner, Sir William came to me, and he and 
his son and daughter, and I and my wife, by coach to Moor 
Fields to walk, but it was most foule weather, so we went 
into an alehouse, and there eat some cakes and ale, and a 
washeall and bowlet woman and girl come to us, and sung 
to us. 

27th. In the morning to my bookseller’s, to bespeak a 
Stephens’ Thesaurus, for which I offer 4/., to give to Paul’s 
School, and from thence to Paul’s Church; and there I did 
hear Dr. Gunning preach a good sermon upon the day, being 
St. John’s day, and did hear him tell a story, which he did 
persuade us to believe to be true, that St. John and the 
Virgin Mary did appear to Gregory, a Bishopp, at his prayer 
to be confirmed in the faith, which I did wonder to hear 
from him. 

28th. At home all the morning; and in the afternoon all 
of us at the office upon a letter from the Duke for the 
making up of a speedy estimate of all the debts of the Navy 
which is put into good forwardness. 


1 The wenches with their wassall bowls 
About the streets are singing.’—Wrrner’s Christmas Carol. 
The old custom of carrying the wassail bowl from door to door, with 
songs and merriment, in Christmas week, is still observed in some of 
our rural districts. 


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29th. (Lord’s day.) To the Abbey, and there meeting 


with Mr. Hooper, he took me in among the quire, and 
there I sang with them their service. To the Ward- 
robe, and supped, and staid very long talking with my 
Lady, who seems to doat every day more and more upon us. 

30th. With my wife and Sir W. Pen to see our pictures, 
which do not much displease us. With my wife to the play, 
and saw “ D’Ambois,’” which I never saw. 

31st. My wife and I and this morning to the paynter’s 
[Savill’s], and there she sat the last time, and I stood by, 
and did tell him some little things to do, that now her 
picture I think will please me very well; and after her, 
her little black dogg sat in her lap, and was drawn, which 
made us very merry: so home to dinner. ‘To the office; 
and there late finishing our estimate of the debts of the 
Navy to this day; and it come to near 374,0001. So home, 
and after supper and my barber had trimmed me, [I sat 
down to end my journell for this year, and my condition at 
this time, by God’s blessing, is that my health is very good 
and so my wife’s in all respects: my servants, W. Hewer, 
Sarah, Nell, and Wayneman: my house at the Navy Office. 
I suppose myself to be worth about 5001. clear in the 
world, and my goods of my house my owne, and what is 
coming to me from Brampton, when my father dies, which 
God defer. But, by my uncle’s death, the whole care and 
trouble, and settling of all, lies upon me, which is very 
great, because of lawsuits, especially that with T. Trice, 
about the interest of 2001., which will, I hope, be ended 
soon. My chiefest thought is now to get a good wife for 
Tom, there being one offered by the Joyces, a cozen of 
theirs, worth 2001. in ready money. I am upon writing a 
little treatise to present to the Duke, about our privilege in 
the seas, as to other nations striking their flags to us. But 
my greatest trouble is, that I have for this last half year 
been a very great spendthrift in all manner of respects, 
that I am afraid to cast up my accounts, though I hope I 
am worth what I say above. But I will cast them up very 
shortly. I have newly taken a solemn oath about abstaining 
from plays and wine, which I am resolved to keep, according 
to the letter of the oath which I keep by me. The fleet 

1A tragedy, by George Chapman. 
R2 


244 DIARY OF [4th Jan. 


hath been ready to sail for Portsmouth, but hath lacked 
wind this fortnight, and by that means my Lord is forced to 
keep at sea all this winter, till he brings home the Queen, 
which is the expectation of all now, and the greatest matter 
of publique talk. 


1661-62. 


January Ist. Waking this morning out of my sleep 
on a sudden, I did with my elbow hit my wife a great 
blow over her face and neck, which waked her with pain, 
at which I was sorry, and to sleep again. We went by 
coach to see the play of the Spanish Curate ;' and a good 
play it is, only Diego the Sexton did overdo his part too 
much. 

2d. An invitation sent us before we were upp from my 
Lady Sandwich’s, to come and dine with her; so at the 
office all the morning, and at noon thither to dinner, where 
there was a good and great dinner, and the company, Mr. 
William Montagu and his lady; but she seemed so far from 
the beauty that I expected her from my Lady’s talk to be, 
that it put me into an ill humour all day, to find my expec- 
tation so lost. I went forth, by appointment, to meet with 
Mr. Grant, who promised to bring me acquainted with 
Cooper,” the great limner in little, but they deceived me. 
Sir Richard Fanshaw is come suddenly from Portugall, and 
nobody knows what his business is about. 

3d. To Faithorne’s,? and there bought some pictures of 
him; and while I was there, comes by the King’s lfe- 
guard, he being gone to Lincoln’s Inne this aftergoon to 
see the Revells there; there being, according to an old 
custome, a prince and all his nobles, and other matters of 
sport and charge. 

4th. At home, hanging up pictures, and seeing how my 
pewter sconces that I have bought will become my stayres 
and entry. With Mr. Chetwin, who had a dog challenged 
of him, by another man, that said it was his, but Mr. Chet- 


1 By John Fletcher. Pepys saw it at the Duke’s Theatre. 
2 Samuel Cooper, the celebrated miniature painter. Ob. 1672, 
8 William Faithorne, the well-known engraver. Ob. 1691. 


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win called the dog, and the dog at last would follow him, and 
not his old master. 

5th. (Lord’s day.) My brother Tom tells me how he hath 
seen the father and mother of the girle which my cozen 
Joyces would have him to have for a wife, and they are much 
for it, but we are in a great quandary what to do therein— 
2001. being but a little money; and I hope, if he continues 
as he begins, he may look for one with more. To church, 
and before sermon, there was a long psalm, and half another 
sung out, while the Sexton gathered what the church would 
give him for this last half year, I gave him 3s., and have the 
last week given the Clerke 2s., which I set down, that I may 
know what to do the next year, if it please the Lord that 
I live so long; but the jest was, the Clerk begins the 25th 
psalm, which hath a proper tune to it, and then the 116th, 
which cannot be sung with that tune, which seemed very 
ridiculous. 

6th. To dinner to Sir W. Pen’s, it being a solemn feast 
day with him—his wedding day,’ and we had, besides a good 
chine of beef and other good cheer, eighteen mince~ pies 
in a dish, the number of years that he hath been married,’ 
where Sir W. Batten and his lady and daughter was, 
and Colonel Treswell and Major*® Holmes, who I perceive 
would fain get to be free and friends with my wife, but I 
shall prevent it, and she herself hath also a defyance against 
him. 

8th. This night come about 100]. from Brampton by 
carrier to me, in holsters from my father, which made me 
laugh. 

10th. To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paule 
Neale,* about a mathematical request of my Lord’s to him, 
which I did deliver to him, and he promised to employ 
somebody to answer it—something about observation of 
the moone and stars, but what I did not mind. An in- 
juncon is granted in Chancery against T. Trice, at which I 


1Lady Penn was Margaret, daughter of Sir John Jasper, of Rotter- 
dam.—Life of Penn, ii. 572. 

2The same custom is noticed, Feb. 3, 1661-62. 

3See June 16, 1660, and note. 

‘Sir Paul Neile, of White Waltham, Berks, son of Neile, Archbishop 
of York, an active member of the Royal Society. 


246 DIARY OF [13th Jan. 


was very glad, being before in some trouble for it. To meet 
my wife at Mrs. Hunt’s to gossip with her, which we did 
alone, and were very merry, and did give her a cup and spoon 
for my wife’s god-child. 

11th. To the Exchange, and there all the news is of the 
French and Dutch joyning against us; but I do not-+think 
it yet true. In the afternoon, to Sir W. Batten’s, where in 
discourse I heard the custome of the election of the Duke of 
Genoa,’ who for two years is every day attended in the 
greatest state, and four or five hundred men always waiting 
upon him as a king; and when the two years are out, and 
another is chose, a messenger is sent to him, who stands at 
the bottom of the stairs, and he at the top, and says, “ V*. 
Illustrissima Serenita sta finita, ed puede andar en casa.”— 
** Your serenity is now ended; and now you may be going 
home:” and so claps on his hat. And the old Duke, having 
by custom sent his goods home before, walks away, it may 
be with but one man at his heels; and the new one brought 
immediately in his room, in the greatest state in the world. 
Another account was told us, how the Dukedom of Ragusa, 
in the Adriatique, a State that is little, but more ancient, 
they say, than Venice, and is called the mother of Venice, 
and the Turkes lie round about it, that they change all the 
officers of their guard, for fear of conspiracy, every twenty- 
four hours, so that nobody knows who shall be captain of 
the guard to-night; but two men come to a man, and lay 
hold of him as a prisoner, and carry him to the place; and 
there he hath the keys of the garrison given him, and he 
presently issues his orders for that night’s watch; and so 
always from night to night. Sir William Rider told the first 
of his own knowledge; and both he and Sir W. Batten con- 
firmed the last. 

13th. Before twelve o’clock comes, by appointment, Mr. 
Peter and the Dean, and Colonel Honiwood,’ brothers, to 


1 Readers will find a good account of the origin of the Ducal Go- 
vernment of Genoa in Hallam’s Middle Ages, vol. i., p. 468. 


These three brothers were the sons of Robert Honywood, of 
Charing, Kent, who had purchased the estate of Mark’s Hall, in Essex; 
and whose mother, Mary Attwaters, after forty-four years of widow- 
hood, died at ninety-three, having lived to see three hundred and sixty- 
seven of her own lawful descendants. Colonel Honywood and Peter 


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dine with me, but so soon, that I was troubled at it. 
Mr. Peter did show us the experiment, which I had 
heard talke of, of the chymicall glasses,’ which break all 
to dust by breaking off a little small end; which is a great 
mystery to me. My aunt Wright and my wife and I to 
cardsy-she teaching us to play at gleeke,* which is a pretty 
game; but I have not my head so free as to be troubled 
with it. 

14th. This day, my brave vellum covers to keep pictures 
in, come in, which pleases me very much. 

15th. This morning, Mr. Berkenshaw* come again, and 
after he had examined me and taught me something in my 
work, he and I went to breakfast in my chamber upon a 
collar of brawn; and after we had eaten, asked me whether 
we had not committed a fault in eating to-day; telling me, 


seem, from subsequent notices in the Diary, to have been both knighted; 
but we find no particulars of their history. Michael Honywood, D.D., 
was rector of Kegworth, co. Leicester, and seeking refuge at Utrecht 
during the Rebellion, was, on his return, made Dean of Lincoln, and 
died in 1681, aged 85, having been generally considered a learned and 
holy man. The widow of Dean Honywood left his library to the Dean 
and Chapter of Lincoln. Many early printed books of great rarity 
contained in this collection, were dispersed under the auspices of Dean 
Gordon in 1817, and replaced by the purchase of modern works com- 
paratively of no value. See Botfield’s Account of our Cathedral Libra- 
ries. In the Topographer and Genealogist, No. V., there is a printed 
account of “ Mary Honywood and her posterity,” taken from a MS. of 
Peter LeNeve’s, in the Lansdowne Collection, in the British Museum. 


1They are formed by dropping melted glass into water. These drops 
are still called after Prince Rupert, who brought them out of Ger- 
many, where they were named “ Lacryme Batavice.” They consist of 
glass drops with long and slender tails, which burst to pieces on the 
breaking off those tails in any part. The invention is thus alluded to 
in Hudibras :— 
“ Honour is like that glassy bubble 

That finds philosophers such trouble, 

Whose least part cracked, the whole does fly, 

And wits are cracked to find out why.” 

Part II., canto ii. line 385. 


2A game at cards played by three persons, each hand having twelve 
cards, and the rest being left for the stock.—Halliwell’s Dictionary. 
“Whatever games were stirring at places were he retired, as gammon, 
gleek, piquet, or even the merry main, he made one.” Life of Lord 
Keeper Guildford, vol. i. p. 17. See Feb. 17, 1661-62, post. 


8 Pepys’s music master. 


248 DIARY OF (17th Jan. 


that it is a fast-day ordered by the Parliament,’ to pray for 
more seasonable weather; it having hitherto been summer 
weather, that it is, both as to warmth and every other thing, 
just as if it were in the middle of May or June, which do 
threaten a plague, as all men think, to follow, for so it was 
almost the last winter; and the whole year after hath been a 
very sickly time to this day.” 

16th. Towards Cheapside; and in Paul’s Churchyard saw 
the funeral of my Lord Cornwallis,’ late Steward* of the 
King’s House, go by. And thence I to the paynter’s, and 
there paid him 6l. for the two pictures, and 36s. for the two 
frames. Stoakes told us that notwithstanding the country 
of Gambo” is so unhealthy, yet the people of the place live very 
long, so as the present King there is 150 years old, which 
they count by rains; because every year it rains continually 
four months together. He also told us, that the kings there 
have above 100 wives a-piece. 

17th. To Westminster, with Mr. Moore, and there I met 
with Lany, the Frenchman, who told me that he had a letter 
from France last night, that tells him that my Lord Hinch- 
ingbroke is dead, and that he did die yesterday was se’nnight, 
which do surprise me exceedingly, though we know that he 
hath been sick these two months, so I hardly ever was in 
my life; but being fearfull that my Lady should come to 
hear it too suddenly, he and I went up to my Lord Crewe’s, 
and there I dined with him, and after dinner we told him, 
and the whole family is much disturbed by it: so we con- 
sulted what to do to tell my Lady of it; and at last we 
thought of my going first to Mr. George Montagu’s to hear 


*On the 8th, a proclamation was issued for a general fast to be ob- 
served in London and Westminster on the 15th, and in the rest of 
England on the 22d, with prayers on occasion of “ the present unsea- 
sonableness of the weather.” William Lucy, Bishop of St. Davids, 
preached before the House of Lords. Dr. Samuel Bolton and Dr. 
Bruno Ryves preached at St. Margaret’s, before the House of Com- 
mons. 

?The old proyerb says truly, that “a green yule maketh a fat kirk- 
yard.” Apples were growing at this time. 


8 See ante, April 23, 1661, note. 
“This should be Treasurer. 


*Gambia, on the western coast of Africa, then recently possessed by 
the English. Its unhealthy character is still, alas! well proved by our 
cruisers against the slave trade. 


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whether he had any news of it, which I did, and there found 
all his house in great heavinesse for the death of his son, Mr. 
George Montagu, who did go with our young gentlemen into 
France, and that they hear nothing at all of our young Lord; 
so believing that thence comes the mistake, I returned to 
my Lord Crewe, (in my way to the Piazza seeing a house on 
fire, and all the streets full of people to quench it,) and told 
them of it, which they are much glad of, and conclude, and 
so I hope, that my Lord is well; and so I went to my Lady 
Sandwich and told her all, and after much talk I parted 
thence, with my wife, who had been there all the day, and so 
home to my musique, and then to bed. 

18th. Comes Mr. Moore to give me an account how Mr. 
Montagu’ has gone away of a sudden with the fleet, in such 
haste, that he hath left behind some servants, and many things 
of consequence; and among others, my Lord’s commission 
for Embassador. Whereupon he and I took coach, and to 
White Hall to my Lord’s lodgings, to have spoke with Mr. 
Ralph Montagu, his brother, and here staid talking with 
Sarah, and the old man; but by and by hearing that he 
was in Covent Garden, we went thither; and at my Lady 
Harvy’s his sister, I spoke with him, and he tells me that the 
commission is not left behind. 

19th. (Lord’s day.) Into the Old Bayly by appointment 
to speak with Mrs. Norbury, who lies (it falls out) next 
door to my uncle Fenner’s ; but, as God would have it, we 
having no desire to be seen by his people, he having lately 
married a midwife, that is old and ugly, and that hath already 
brought home to him a daughter and three children, we were 
let in at a back doore. And here she offered me the refusall 
of some lands of hers at Brampton, if I have a mind to 
buy. Thence to my uncle Wright’s, and there we supped, 
and were merry, though my uncle hath lately lost 2 or 300 
at sea, and I am troubled to hear that the Turkes do take more 


1Edward Montagu, noticed 20th April, 1660, dying unmarried, 
v. p., his brother Ralph succeeded, as third Lord Montagu of Bough- 
ton, and was created an Earl in 1689, and in 1705, Duke of Montagu. 
He was Ambassador to France from 1668 to 1672; and some of his 
letters were used for the impeachment of the Earl of Danby, afterwards 
Duke of Leeds. He died in 1709. His sister Elizabeth had married 
Sir Daniel Harvey, who was knighted by Charles II. at his first land- 
ing, and was sent, in 1668, Ambassador to Constantinople, 


250 DIARY OF [22d Jan. 


and more of our ships in the Straights, and that our mer- 
chants here in London do daily break, and are still likely 
to do so. 

20th. This day did divide the two butts, which we four 
did send for, of sherry from Cales, and mine was put into 
a hogshead, and the vessel filled up with four gallons of 
Malaga wine; what it will stand us in I know not; but it 
is the first great quantity of wine that I ever bought. 

21st. Home, to practice my composition of musique. We 
have heard nothing yet how far the fleet hath got toward 
Portugall. 

22d. After musique-practice, to White Hall, and thence 
to Westminster, in my way calling at Mr. George Mon- 
tagu’s,’ to condole on the loss of his son, who was a fine 
gentleman; and it is no doubt a great discomfort to our two 
young gentlemen, his companions in France. After this 
discourse, he told me, among other news, the great jealousys 
that are now in the Parliament House. The Lord Chan- 
cellor, it seems, taking occasion from this late plot to raise 
fears in the people, did project the raising of an army 
forthwith, besides the constant militia, thinking to make 
the Duke of York General thereof. But the House did, 
in very open termes, say, they were grown too wise to be 
fooled again into another army; and said they had found 
how that man that hath the command of an army is not 
beholden to any body to make him King. There are 
factions, private ones at Court, about Madam Palmer; 
but what it is about I know not. But it is something 
about the King’s favour to her now that the Queen is 
coming. He told me, too, what sport the King and Court 
do make at Mr. Edward Montagu’s leaving his things 
behind him. But the Chancellor, taking it a little more 
seriously, did openly say to my Lord Chamberlaine,’ that 
had it been such a gallant as my Lord Mandeville,’ his son, 


1Henry Montagu, first Earl of Manchester, had numerous issue by 
his first lady; but George, here mentioned, was the eldest son of Mar- 
garet Crouch, the Earl’s third wife. See also 7th March, 1660, ante. 


2The Earl of Manchester. 


® Robert Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, was a Gentleman of the 
Bedchamber to Charles II. He became third Earl of Manchester on 
his father’s death and died at Paris in 1682. 


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it might have been taken as a frolique; but for him that 
would be thought a grave coxcombe, it was very strange. 
Thence to the Hall, where I heard the House had ordered 
all the King’s murderers that remain to be executed, but 
Fleetwood and Downes. 

23d. By invitacon to my uncle Fenner’s, where I found 
his new wife, a pitiful, old, ugly, ill-bred woman, in a hatt, a 
midwife. Here were many of his, and as many of her rela- 
tions, sorry, mean people; and after choosing our gloves, we 
all went over to the Three Crane taverne,’ and, though the 
best room of the house, in such a narrow dogg-hole we were 
crammed, and I believe we were near forty, that it made me 
loath my company and victuals; and a sorry, poor dinner it 
was too. After dinner, I took aside the two Joyces, to thank 
them for their kind thoughts for a wife for Tom: but that, 
considering the possibility there is of my having no child, 
and what then I shall be able to leave him, I do think he may 
expect in that respect a wife with more money, and so desired 
them to think no more of it. 

24th. To the Wardrobe, where very merry with my Lady, 
and after dinner I went for the pictures* thither, and mine 
is well liked: but she is so much offended with my wife’s; 
and I am of her opinion, that it do much wrong her; but I 
will have it altered. 

25th. At home and the office all the morning. Walking 
in the garden® to give the gardener directions what to do 
this year, for I intend to have the garden handsome, Sir W. 
Pen come to me, and did break a business to me about re- 
moving his son from Oxford to Cambridge to some private 
college. I proposed Magdalene, but cannot name a tutor 
at present; but I shall think and write about it. Thence 
with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard 
Brown,* one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much 


1In Upper Thames Street. ? Painted by Savill. 


8“T remember your honour very well, when you newly came out of 
France, and wore pantaloon breeches; at which time your late ho- 
noured father [Sir W. Penn] dwelt in the Navy Office, in that apart- 
ment the Lord Viscount Brouncker dwelt in afterwards, which was on 
the north part of the Navy Office garden.”—P. Gibson of Penn ye 
Quaker, Life of Penn, ii. 616. 


“He had been gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I., and 


252 DIARY OF [27th Jan. 


concerned against Sir N. Crisp’s project’ of making a 
great sasse? in the King’s lands about Deptford, to be a wett- 
dock to hold 200 sail of ships. But the ground, it seems, was 
long since given by the King to Sir Richard. After the 
Trinity-house men had done their business, the master, Sir 
William Rider, come to bid us welcome; and so to dinner. 
Comes Mr. Moore with letters from my Lord Sandwich, 
speaking of his lying still at Tangier looking for the fleet; 
which, we hope, is now in a good way thither. 

26th. (Lord’s day.) Thanks be to God, since my leaving 
drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind 
my business better and do spend less money, and less time 
lost in idle company. 

27th. This morning, both Sir Williams and I by barge 
to Deptford-yard to give orders in business there; and 
called on several ships, also to give orders. Going to take 
water upon Tower Hill, we met with three sleddes stand- 
ing there to carry my Lord Monson*® and Sir H. Mild- 


Resident in France for that monarch. He was created a Baronet Ist 
September, 1649, and died 10th February, 1683. Much is said of him 
in the Diary of John Evelyn, who married his only child and heir; and 
thus became possessor of Sayes Court. Part of Deptford Dockyard is 
still held under the Evelyn family. The plans, on a large scale, of 
Sayes Court, and Deptford Dockyard, executed by Joel Gascoyne, in 
1692, probably for Evelyn himself, are in the British Museum, together 
with plans of the dockyard, as it existed in 1688, 1698, and 1774, re- 
spectively; and also other plans of the docks made for the Evelyns. 


1Sir N. Crisp was magnificent in all his projects. 


2 Sasse, a sluice, or lock, used in water-works.”—Bailey’s Dictionary. 
This project is mentioned by Evelyn, 16th Jan. 1661-2, and Lyson’s 
Environs, vol. iv. p. 392. 


3 William, second son of Sir Thomas Monson, Bart.; created, by 
Charles I., Viscount Monson of Castlemaine, in the kingdom of Ire- 
land. Notwithstanding this act of favour, he was instrumental in the 
King’s death; and in 1661, being degraded of his honours, was sen- 
tenced, with Sir Henry Mildmay and Robert Wallop, to undergo the 
punishment here described. None of their names were subscribed 
to the King’s sentence. An account of this ceremony was printed at 
the time, entitled “The Traytors’s Pilgrimage from the Tower to Ty- 
burn, being a true relation of the drawing of William Lord Mounson, 
Sir Henry Mildmay, and ’Squire Wallop....with the manner of the 
proceedings at Tyburn, in order to the degrading and divesting of them 
of their former titles of honour, and their declaratory speeches to both 
the right worshipful Sheriffs of London and Middlesex.” The late 
Lord Monson and the present Lord Sondes, are descended from the 


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may’ and another,* to the gallows and back again, with 
ropes about their necks; which is to be repeated every year, 
this being the day of their sentencing the King. 

28th. With my wife to the paynter’s, where we staid very 
late to have her picture mended, which at last is come to be 
very like her, and I think well done; but the paynter, though 
a very honest man, I found to be very silly as to matter of 
skill in shadowes. 

30th. Fast day for the murthering of the late King. I 
went to church, and Mr. Mills made a good sermon upon 
David’s words, ** Who can lay his hands upon the Lord’s 
Anoynted and be guiltlesse? ” 

31st. All the morning in my cellar ordering some alter- 
acons therein, being much pleased with my new doore into 
the back-yard. 

February 1st. This morning with Commissioner Pett to 
the office; and he staid there writing, while I and Sir W. 
Pen walked in the garden talking about his business of 
putting his son to Cambridge; and to that end I intend to 
write to-night to Fairebrother, to give me an account of 
Mr. Burton of Magdalene. Thence with Mr. Pett to the 
paynter’s; and he likes our pictures very well, and so do I. 
Thence he and I to the Countess of Sandwich, to lead him- 
to her to kiss her hands: and dined with her, and told her 
the news, which Sir W. Pen told me to do, that expresse is 
come from my Lord with letters, that by a great storm and 
tempest the mole of Algiers is broken down, and many 
of their ships sunk into the mole. So that God Almighty 


eldest son of Sir Thomas Monson. Viscount Monson left one son 
by his second wife, Alston Monson, who died s. p. in 1674.—Collins’s 
Peerage. 


*Sir Henry Mildmay, third son of Sir Humphrey Mildmay, had 
enjoyed the confidence of Charles I., who made him Master of the 
Jewels; but he sat a few days as one of the King’s judges. He died 
at Antwerp. His estate of Wansted was confiscated, and was given 
to Sir Robert Brookes; and by him, or his heirs, or creditors, alienated 
in 1667 to Sir Josiah Childe, ancestor of the Earl Tylney. See May 
14, 1665. It is now Lord Mornington’s, in right of his first wife. Sir 
Henry Mildmay’s other estates were saved by being settled on his 
marriage. 


* Robert Wallop, the direct ancestor of the present Earl of Ports- 
mouth. He died in the Tower, November 16th, 1667. 


254 DIARY OF [4th Feb. 


hath now ended that unlucky business for us; which is very 
good news. 

2d. (Lord’s day.) To church in the morning, and then 
home, and dined with my wife, and so both of us to 
church again, where we had an Oxford man give us a 
most impertinent sermon upon ‘* Cast your bread upon the 
waters,” &c. 

3d. After musique-practice, I dined with Sir W. Batten 
with many friends more, it being his wedding-day, and 
among other froliques, it being their 3rd year, they had 
three pyes, whereof the middlemost was made of an ovall 
form in an ovall hole within the other two, which made 
much mirth, and was called the middle piece; and above all 
the rest, we had great striving to steal a spooneful out of it; 
and I remember Mrs. Mills, the minister’s wife, did steal 
one for me, and did give it me; and to end all, Mrs. Shipp- 
man did fill the pie full of white wine, it holding at least 
a pint and a half, and did drink it off for a health to Sir 
William and my Lady—it being the greatest draught that 
ever I did see a woman drink in my life. I went along 
with my lady and the rest of the gentlewomen to Major 
Holmes’s, and there we had a fine supper—among others, 
excellent lobsters, which I never eat at this time of the 
year before. The Major hath good lodgings at the Trinity 
House. At last home, and, being in my chamber, we do 
hear great noise of mirth at Sir William Batten’s, tearing 
the ribbands* from my Lady and him. 

4th. To Westminster Hall, where it was full terme. Here 
all the morning, and at noon to my Lord Crewe’s, where 
one Mr. Templer,” an ingenious man and a person of ho- 
nour he seems to be, dined; and, discoursing of the nature 
of serpents, he told us some in the waste places of Lanca- 
shire do grow to a great bigness, and do feed upon larkes, 
which they take thus:—They observe, when the lark is 
soared to the highest, and do craw] till they come to be just 
underneath them; and there they place themselves with 
mouth uppermost, and there, as is conceived, they do eject 
poyson upon the bird; for the bird do suddenly come down 


1 As if newly married. See note to Jan. 24, 1659-60. 


?Probably Benjamin Templer, rector of Ashby, in Northampton- 
shire. Ara 


. 
: 
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again in its course of a circle, and falls directly into the 
mouth of the serpent; which is very strange. He is a great 
traveller; and speaking of the tarantula, he says that all the 
harvest long, about which times they are most busy, there 
are fiddlers go up and down the fields everywhere, in ex- 
pectation of being hired by those that are stung. This 
afternoon, going into the office, one met me, and did serve 
a subpoena upon me for one Field, whom we did commit 
to prison’ the other day for some ill words he did give the 
office. The like he had for others, but we shall scoure 
him for it. 

5th. To the Playhouse, and there saw “ Rule a Wife and 
have a Wife;’’ very well done. And here also I did look 
long upon my Lady Castlemaine, who, notwithstanding her 
sickness, hates a great beauty. 

6th. After dinner my barber trimmed me, and so to the 
office, where I do begin to be exact in my duty there, and 
exacting my privileges. 

7th. I hear the prisoners in the Tower that are to die, are 
come to the Parliament-house this morning. To the Ward- 
robe, to dinner with my Lady; where a civitt cat, parrot, 
apes, and many other things, are come from my Lord by 
Captain [William] Hill, who dined with my Lady with us 
to-day. Thence to the paynter’s [Savill’s], and am well 
pleased with our pictures. 

9th. (Lord’s day.) I took physique this day, and was all 
day in my chamber, talking with my wife about her laying 
out of 201., which I had long since promised her to lay out in 
clothes against Easter, for herself, and composing some ayres, 
God forgive me! At night to prayers and to bed. 

10th. To Paul’s Church-yard, and there I met with Dr. 
Fuller’s “ England’s Worthys,” the first time that I ever saw 
it; and so I sat down reading in it; being much troubled 
that, though he had some discourse with me about my fa- 
mily and armes, he says nothing at all, nor mentions us 
either in Cambridgeshire or Norfolke. But I believe, in- 
deed, our family were never considerable. 

11th. At the office in the afternoon; so home to musique: 
my mind being full of our alteracons in the garden. At 


* Which afterwards caused Pepys much trouble. 


256 DIARY OF [16th Feb. 


night begun to compose songs, and begun with “ Gaze not 
on swans.””* 

12th. This morning till four in the afternoon I spent 
abroad, doing of many and very considerable businesses: 
so home, with my mind very highly contented with my day’s 
work, wishing I could do so every day. 

13th. Mr. Blackburne do tell me plain of the corruption 
of all our Treasurer’s officers, and that they hardly pay any 
money under ten per cent.; and that the other day, for a 
mere assignation of 2001. to some counties, they took 151., 
which is very strange. Last night died the Queen of Bo- 
hemia.* 

14th. (Valentine’s day.) I did this day purposely shun to 
be seen at Sir W. Batten’s, because I would not have his 
daughter to be my Valentine, as she was the last year, there 
being no great friendship between us now, as formerly. 
This morning in comes W. Bowyer, who was my wife’s 
Valentine, she having, at which I made good sport to myself, 
held her hands all the morning, that she might not see the 
paynters that were at work in gilding my chimney-piece and 
pictures in my dining-room. 

15th. With the two Sir Williams to the Trinity House ; 
and there, in their society, had the business debated of Sir 
Nicholas Crisp’s sasse* at Deptford. After dinner, I was 
sworn a Younger Brother, Sir W. Rider being Deputy- 
Master for my Lord of Sandwich; and after I was sworn, 
all the Elder Brothers shake me by the hand; it is their 
custom, it seems. No news yet of our fleet gone to Tangier, 
which we now begin to think long. 

16th. (Lord’s day.) To church this morning. In the 
afternoon, I walked to St. Bride’s to Church, to hear Dr. 
Jacomb preach upon the recovery, and at the request of 
Mrs. Turner, who come abroad this day, the first time since 
her long sickness. He preached upon David’s words, “I 


1The poetry of the song, “ Gaze not on Swans,” is by H. Noel, and 
set to music by H. Lawes, in his Ayres and Dialogues, 1653. 


2 At Leicester House, on the north side of the present Leicester 
Square, to which she had removed only five days previously from Drury 
House, in Drury Lane, the residence of Lord Craven, to whom it has 
been asserted that she was married. 


8 In Water Lane. See Jan. 25, 1661-2. 


=~ 


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shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord,” 
and made a pretty good sermon, though not extraordinary. 
After sermon, I led her home, and sat with her, and there 
was the Dr. got before us; but strange what a command he 
hath got over Mrs. Turner, who was so carefull to get him 
what he would, after his preaching, to drink—and he, with a 
cunning gravity, knows how to command, and had it, and 
among other things told us that he heard more of the Com- 
mon Prayer this afternoon (while he stood in the vestry, 
before he went up into the pulpitt) than he had heard this 
twenty years. 

17th. This morning, both Sir Williams, myself, and Cap- 
tain Cocke, and Captain Tinker of the Convertine,’ which 
we are going to look upon (being intended [to go] with 
these ships fitting for the East Indys), down to Deptford; 
and thence, after being on ship-board, to Woolwich, and 
there eat something. The Sir Williams being unwilling to 
eat flesh,” Captain Cocke and I had a breast of veale roasted. 
Going and coming we played at glecke,® and I won 9s 6d. 
clear, the most that ever I won in my life. I pray God it 
may not tempt me to play again. 

18th. Having agreed with Sir W. Pen to meet him at 
the Opera, and finding by my walking in the streets, which 
were every where full of brick-battes and tyles flung down 
by the extraordinary winde the last night,* such as hath not 


1A fourth-rate, of 48 guns; in 1665 it was commanded by Captain 
John Pearce. 


2In Lent, of which the observance, intermitted for nineteen years, 
was now reviving. We have seen that Pepys, as yet, had not cast off 
all show of puritanism. “In this month the Fishmongers’ Company 
petitioned the King that Lent might be kept, because they had provided 
abundance of fish for this season, and their prayer was granted.”— 
Rugge. 


®See Jan. 13, 1661-2, ante. 


“A dreadful storm of wind happened one night in February, anno 
1661-2, which, though general, at least, all over England, yet was re- 
markable at Oxford in these two respects:—l. That though it forced 
the stones inwards into the cavity of Allhallow’s spire, yet it overthrew 
it not. And 2. That in the morning, when there was some abatement 
of its fury, it was yet so violent, that it laved water out of the river 
Cherwell, and cast it quite over the bridge at Magdalen College, above 
the surface of the water, near twenty foot high; which passage, with 
advantage of holding by the College wall, I had then curiosity to go to 


VOL. I. Ss 


258 DIARY OF [20th Feb, 


been in memory before, unless at the death of the late Pro- 
tector, that it was dangerous to go out of doors; and 
hearing how several persons had been killed to-day by the 
fall of things in the streets, and that the pageant in Fleet 
Streete is most of it blown down, and hath broke down part 
of several houses, among others Dick Brigden’s; and that 
one Lady Sanderson,’ a person of quality in Covent-Garden, 
was killed by the house, in her bed, last night; I sent my 
boy to forbid Sir W. Pen to go forth. But he bringing me 
word that he is gone, I went to the Opera, and saw “ The 
Law against Lovers.” a good play and well performed, 
especially the little girl’s, whom I never saw act before, 
dancing and singing: and were it not for her, the losse of 
Roxalana’® would spoil the house. 

19th. Musique practice; then to the Trinity-House to 
conclude upon our report of Sir N. Crisp’s project, who come 
to us to answer objections, but we did give him no eare, but 
are resolved to stand to our report. 

20th. Letters from Tangier from my Lord, telling me 
how, upon a great defete given to the Portuguese there by 
the Moors, he had put in three hundred men into the towne,* 


see myself, which otherwise perhaps I should have as hardly credited, 
as some other persons now may do.”—Plot’s Natural History of Ox- 
fordshire, p. 5. 


1This was not the mother of the maids. 


2A tragi-comedy, by Sir William Davenant; taken from “ Measure 
for Measure,” and “ Much Ado about Nothing.” 


3This actress, so called from the character she played in the “ Siege 
of Rhodes,” was Elizabeth Davenport. Evelyn saw her on the 9th 
Jan. 1661-2, she being soon after taken to be “ My Lord Oxford’s Miss;” 
but she returned to the stage within a year. See May 20th, post. She 
was induced to marry the Earl of Oxford, after indignantly refusing to 
become his mistress, and discovered, when too late, that the nuptial 
ceremony had been performed by the Earl’s trumpeter, in the habit of 
a priest. For more of her history, see Mémoires de Grammont. Ash- 
mole records the birth of the Earl of Oxford’s son, by Roxalana, 17th 
April, 1664, which shows that the liaison continued after her return to 
the stage. (Cat. p. 205.) The child was called Aubrey Vere.—Ward’s 
Diary, p. 131. 

*“ Sunday, Jan. 12. This morning, the Portuguese, 140 horse in 
Tangier, made a salley into the country for booty, whereof they had 
possessed about 400 cattle, 30 camels, and some horses, and 35 women 
and girls, and being six miles distant from Tangier, were intercepted by 
100 Moors with harquebusses, who in the first charge killed the Aidill 


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and so he is in possession, of which we are very glad, be- 
cause now the Spaniards’ designs of hindering our getting 
the place are frustrated. I went with the letter inclosed to 
my Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords, and did give it 
him in the House. Went by promise to Mr. Savill’s, and 
there sat the first time for my picture in little, which pleased 
me well. 

21st. Packing up glass to send into the country to my 
father, and books to my brother John, and then to my Lord 
Crewe’s to dinner. 

22d. Come Mr. Savill with the pictures, and we hung 
them up in our dining-room, It comes now to appear very 
handsome with all my pictures. This evening I wrote 
letters to my father; among other things acquainted him 
with the unhappy accident which hath happened lately to 
my Lord of Dorset’s two oldest sons, who, with two Be- 
lasses’s and one Squire Wentworth, were lately apprehended 
for killing and robbing of a tanner about [Stoke] Newing- 
ton on Wednesday last, and are all now in Newgate. I am 
much troubled for it, and for the grief and disgrace it brings 
to their familys and friends.* 


with a shot in the head, whereupon the rest of the Portuguese ran, and 
in the pursuit 51 were slain, whereof were 11 of the knights, besides 
the Aidill. The horses of the 51 were also taken by the Moors, and all 
the booty relieved. 

“Tuesday, Jan. 14. This morning, Mr. Mules came to me from the 
Governor, for the assistance of some of our men into the castle. 

“ Thursday, Jan. 16. About 80 men out of my own ship, and the 
Princess, went into Tangier, into the lower castle, about four of the 
clock in the afternoon. 

“Friday, Jan. 17. In the morning, by eight o’clock, the Martyr 
came in from Cales (Cadiz) with provisions, and about ten a clock I 
sent Sir Richard Stayner, with 120 men, besides officers, to the assist- 
ance of the Governor, into Tangier.’—Lord Sandwich’s Journal, in 
Kennet’s Register. 

On the 23rd, Lord Sandwich put one hundred more men into Tan- 
gier; on the 29th and 30th, Lord Peterborough and his garrison arrived 
from England, and received possession from the Portuguese; and, on 
the 3lst, Sir Richard Stayner and the seamen re-embarked on board 
Lord Sandwich’s fleet. 


The following account of this transaction is abridged from the Mer- 
curius Publicus of the day :— Charles Lord Buckhurst, Edward Sack- 
ville, Esq., his brother; Sir Henry Belasyse, K.B., eldest son of Lord 
Belasyse; John Belasyse, brother to Lord Faulconberg; and Thomas 


s2 


260 DIARY OF [25th Feb, 
23d. (Lord’s day.) My cold being increased, I staid at 


home all day, pleasing myself with my dining-room, now 
graced with pictures, and reading of Dr. Fuller’s Worthys: 
so I spend the day. ‘This day, by God’s mercy, I am 29 
years of age, and in very good health, and like to live 
and get an estate; and if I have a heart to be contented, 
I think I may reckon myself as happy a man as any in 
the world, for which God be praised. So to prayers and 
to bed. 

24th. Long with Mr. Berkenshaw in the morning at my 
musique practice, finishing my song of “Gaze not on 
swans,” in two parts, which pleases me well, and I did 
give him 5l. for this month or five weeks that he hath 
taught me, which is a great deal of money, and troubled 
me to part with it. Thence to the paynter’s, and set again 
for my picture in little. Called Will up, and chid him be- 
fore my wife, for refusing to go to church with the maids 
yesterday, and telling his mistress that he would not be made 
a slave of. 

25th. Great talk of the effects of this late great wind; 
and I heard one say that he had five great trees standing 
together blown down; and, beginning to lop them, one of them, 
as soon as the lops were cut off, did, by the weight of the 
root, rise again and fasten. We have letters from the forest 
of Deane, that above 1000 oakes and as many _ beeches 
are blown downe in one walke there. And. letters from 
my father tell me of 201. hurt done to us at Brampton. This 
day in the news-booke IT find that my Lord Buckhurst’ and 
his fellows have printed their case as they did give it in upon 
examination to a Justice of Peace, wherein they make them- 


Wentworth, Esq., only son of Sir G. Wentworth, whilst in pursuit of 
thieves near Waltham Cross, mortally wounded an. innocent tanner, 
named Hoppy, whom they had endeavored to secure, suspecting him 
to have been one of the robbers; and as they took away the money 
found on his person, under the idea that it was stolen property, they 
were soon after apprehended on the charges of robbery and murder; 
but the Grand Jury found a bill for manslaughter only.” And it would 
seem, from an allusion to their trial, in the Diary, Ist yy, 1663, that 
they were acquitted. 


1Charles Lord Buckhurst, eldest son of Richard Sackville, fifth Earl 
of Dorset; created Lord Cranfield and Earl of Middlesex soon after 
his uncle’s death, in 1675, and succeeded his father as Earl of Dorset 
in 1667. Ob. 1705-6. 


1661-62] SAMUEL PEPYS 261 


selves a very good tale that they were in pursuit of thieves, 
and that they took this man for one of them, and so killed 
him; and that he himself confessed it was the first time of 
his robbing; and that he did pay dearly for it, for he was a 
dead man. But I doubt things will be proved otherwise than 
they say. 

27th. Come Mr. Berkenshaw, and in our discourse we 
fell to angry words, so that in a pet he flung out of my 
chamber, and I never stopped him, having intended to put 
him off to-day, whether this had happened or no, because [ 
think I have all the rules that he hath to give. 

28th. The boy failing to call us up as I commanded, I was 
angry, and resolved to whip him for that, and many other 
faults, to-day. Early with Sir W. Pen by coach to White 
Hall, to the Duke of York’s chamber, and there I presented 
him from my Lord a fine map of Tangier, done by one Cap- 
tain Beckman,’ a Swede, that is with my Lord. We staid 
looking it over a great while with the Duke after he was 
ready. I and Will get me a rod, and he and I called the 
boy up to one of the upper rooms of the Comptroller’s house 
towards the garden, and there I reckoned all his faults, and 
whipped him soundly, but the rods was so small that I fear 
they did not much hurt to him, but only to my arm, which 
I am already, within a quarter of an houre, not able to stir 
almost. 

March Ist. My wife and I by coach, first to see my little 
picture that is a-drawing, and thence to the Opera, and 
there saw *“ Romeo and Juliet,’ the first time it was ever 
acted, but it is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard, 
and the worst acted that ever I saw these people do, and I 
am resolved to go no more to see the first time of acting, 
for they were all of them out more or less. I do find that 
I am 5001. beforehand in the world, which I was afraid I 
was not, but I find that I had spent above 250]. this last 
half year. 

2d. (Lord’s day.) Talking long in bed with my wife, about 


1 Afterwards Sir Martin Beckman, many of whose plans are in the 
British Museum. He became chief engineer, and was knighted 20th 
March, 1685. The Map of Tangier here mentioned is in the Collection 
of George III. at the British Museum. 


2 Betterton played Romeo and his wife Juliet. 


262 DIARY OF [7th March, 


our frugall life for the time to come, proposing to her 
what I could and would do, if I were worth 2000l., that 
is, be a knight, and keep my coach,’ which pleased her. 
To church in the morning: none in the pew but myself. 

3d. I do find a great deal more of content in these few 
days, that I do speed well about my business, than in all 
the pleasure of a whole week. I am told that this day the 
Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for every ¢himney in 
England, as a constant revenue for ever to the Crown. 

4th. Sir W. Pen’ and I and my wife in his coach to 
Moore Fields, where we walked a great while, though 
it was no fair weather and cold, and after our walk, 
we went to Pope’s Head,’ and eat cakes and other fine 
things. 

5th. To the pewterer’s, to buy a poore’s box, to put my 
forfeits in, upon breach of my late vows. To my office, 
and there sat looking over my papers of my voyage, when 
we fetched over the King, and tore so many of these that 
were worth nothing, as filled my closet as high as my 
knees. 

6th. This night my new camelott riding coate to my col- 
oured cloth suit came home. More news to-day of our losses 
at Brampton by the late storm. 

7th. Early to White Hall, to the chapel, where by Mr. 
Blagrave’s® means I got into his pew, and heard Dr. Creeton,* 
the great Scotchman, and chaplain in ordinary to the King, 
preach before the King, and Duke and Duchess, upon the 
words of Micah:—‘ Roule yourselfe in dust.” He made a 
most learned sermon upon the words: but, in his application, 


This reminds me of a story of my father’s, when he was of Merton 
College, and heard Bowen the porter wish that he had 100]. a-year, to 
enable him to keep a couple of hunters and a pack of foxhounds. 

?In Cornhill, where Pope’s Head Alley still exists. See June 20, 
1662. 


*See Dec. 9, 1660, ante; and Sept. 11, 1664, post. 


*Dr. Robert Creighton, originally of Trinity College, Oxford; but 
who afterwards, from 1627 to 1639, was Greek Professor and Public 
Orator at Cambridge. When Pepys heard him, Creighton was Dean of 
Wells. In 1670, he was consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells. He 
died in 1672. His ‘son, of the same name, was Greek Professor of 
Cambridge from 1662 to 1666, and died in 1678. Sir J. Hawkins says 
that Dr. Creighton (the son) died at Wells in 1736, et, 97, The father 
and son have been sometimes confounded, 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 2638 


the most comical man that ever I heard in my life. Just 
such a man as Hugh Peters; saying that it had been better 
for the poor Cavalier never to have come with the King into 
England again; for he that hath the impudence to deny 
obedience to the lawful magistrate, and to swear to the oath 
of allegiance, &c., was better treated now a-days in Newgate, 
than a poor Royalist, that hath suffered all his life for the 
King, is at Whitehall among his friends. 

8th. By coach with both Sir Williams to Westminster ; 
this being a great day there in the House to pass the busi- 
ness for chimney-money, which was done. In the Hall I 
met with Surgeon Pierce; and he told me how my Lady 
Monk’ hath disposed of all the places which Mr. Edward 
Montagu hoped to have had, as he was Master of the Horse 
to the Queen; which I am afraid will undo him, because he 
depended much upon the profit of what he should make by 
these places. He told me also many more scurvy stories of 
him and his brother Ralph,” which troubles me to hear of 
persons of honour, as they are. Sir W. Pen and I to the 
office, whither afterward come Sir G. Carteret; and we sent 
for Sir Thomas Allen, one of the Aldermen of the City,’ 
about the business of one Colonel Appesly, whom we had 
taken counterfeiting of bills with all our hands and the of- 
ficers of the yards, so well that I should never have mis- 
trusted them. We staid about this business at the office 
till ten at night, and at last did send him with a constable 
to the Counter, and did give warrants for the seizing of a 
complice of his, one Blinkinsopp. 

9th. (Lord’s day.) Church in the morning: dined at 
home, then to church again, and heard Mr. Naylor, whom I 
knew formerly of Keye’s College, make a most eloquent ser- 
-mon. To walk an houre with Sir W. Pen in the garden: then 
he into supper with me. 

10th. At the office, doing business all the morning. Home 
and to bed, to-morrow being washing-day. 

12th. This morning we had news from Mr. Coventry, that 


1She is called in the State Poems “the Monkey Duchess.” The Duke 
was Master of the Horse to the King. 


? Afterwards Duke of Montagu. 
5See April 12, 1661, ante. 


264 DIARY OF [14th March, 


Sir G. Downing,' like a perfidious rogue, though the action 
is good and of service to the King,’ yet he cannot with a 
good conscience do it, hath taken Okey,* Corbet, and Barke- 
stead at Delfe, in Holland, and sent them home in the Black- 
more. Sir W. Pen, talking to me this afternoon of what 
a strange thing it is for Downing to do this, he told me 
of a speech he made to the Lords States of Holland, telling 
them to their faces that he observed that he was not received 
with the respect and observance now, that he was when he 
came from the traitor and rebell Cromwell :* by whom, I am 
sure, he hath got all he hath in the world,—and they know 
it too. 

13th. All day busy about business. Having lately fol- 
lowed my business much, I find great pleasure in it, and a 
growing content. 

14th. Home to dinner. In the afternoon come the Ger- 
man, Dr. Knuffler, to discourse with us about his engine to 
blow up ships. We doubted not the matter of fact, it being 
tried in Cromwell’s time, but the safety of carrying them 
in ships; but he do tell us, that when he comes to tell the 
King his secret, for none but the Kings, successively, and 
their heirs must know it, it will appear to be of no danger 
at all. We concluded nothing; but shall discourse with the 
Duke of York to-morrow about it. 


1See note at p. 2 of this volume. 


2 [“ And hail the treason though we hate the traitor.”] On the 21st 
Charles returned his formal thanks to the States fer their assistance 
in the matter. 


® John Okey, Miles Corbet, and John Barkstead, three of the regi- 
cides; executed April 19th following. 


’The President Hénault mentions a similar speech made by Lock- 
hart, in France. “ Un Ecossois, nommé Lockart, ambassadeur d’Angle- 
terre en France, sous Cromwell, dont il avait epousé la niéce, et qui le 
fut aussi depuis, sous Charles II., disoi qu’il n’étoit pas considéré en 
France, en qualité d’ambassadeur du roi, comme il Vavoit été du tems 
de Cromwel; cela devoit étra parcequ’il y avoit bien de la différence 
entre celui qui obligea la France 4 prendre Dunkerque pour la lui re- 
mettre, et celui qui revendit cette place 4 la France quand il fut remonté 
sur le trone.” Hénault’s pithy remark expresses the truth. Nothing 
shows the degradation of Charles in a more striking light than this co- 
incidence of opinion in two ambassadors. One might almost suppose, 
if the thing were possible, that Hénault had seen Pepys’s Diary. The 
first edition of Hénault does not contain this passage. 


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15th. To the Exchange, to hire a ship for the Maderas. 
Troubled at my maid’s being ill. 

16th. (Lord’s day.) This morning, till churches were done, 
I spent going from one church to another, and hearing a bit 
here and a bit there. Walked to White Hall; and an houre 
or two in the Parke, which is now very pleasant. Here the 
King and Duke come to see their fowle play. The Duke took 
very civil notice of me. At Tom’s, giving him my resolution 
about my boy’s livery. Walking in the garden with Sir W. 
Pen: his son William is at home, not well. But all things, 
I fear, do not go well with them—they look discontentedly, 
but I know not what ails them. 

17th. Last night, the Blackmore pinke brought the three 
prisoners, Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet, to the Tower, being 
taken at Delfe in Holland; where, the Captain tells me, the 
Dutch were a good while before they could be persuaded to 
let them go, they being taken prisoners in their land. But 
Sir G. Downing would not be answered so, though all the 
world takes notice of him for a most ungrateful villaine for 
his pains. 

18th. Sir W. Pen and I on board some of the ships now 
fitting for East Indys and Portugall, to see in what forward- 
ness they are. 

19th. This noon came a letter from T. Pepys, the turner, 
in answer to one of mine the other day to him, wherein I 
did cheque him for not coming to me, as he had promised, 
with his and his father’s resolucion about the difference be- 
tween us. But he writes to me in the very same slighting 
terms that I did to him, without the least respect at all, but 
word for word, as I did him, which argues a high and noble 
spirit in him, though it troubles me a little that he should 
make no more of my anger, yet I cannot blame him for doing 
so, he being the elder brother’s son, and not depending upon 
me at all.’ 

21st. I went to see Sarah and my Lord’s lodgings, which 
are now all in dirt, to be prepared against my Lord’s coming 
from the sea with the Queen. To Westminster Hall; and 
there walked up and down, and heard the great difference 
that hath been between my Lord Chancellor and my Lord 
of Bristol, about a proviso that my Lord Chancellor would 

1 This elucidates, in some degree, the Pepys pedigree. 


266 DIARY OF [26th March, 


have brought into the Bill for Conformity, that it shall 
he in the power of the King, when he sees fit, to dispense 
with the Act of Conformity; and, though it be carried in 
the House of Lords, yet it is believed it will hardly pass in 
the Commons." 

22d. At noon, Sir Williams both and I by water down to 
“the Lewes,” Captain Dekins, his ship, a merchantman, 
where we met the owners, Sir John Lewes’-and Alderman 
Lewes, and several other great merchants: among others, 
one Jefferys, a merry man, and he and I called brothers, 
and he made all the mirth in the company. We had a very 
fine dinner, and all our wives’ healths, with seven or nine 
guns apiece; and exceeding merry we were, and so home by 
barge again. 

23d. (Lord’s day.) This morning was brought me my 
boye’s fine livery, which is very handsome, and I do think 
to keep the black and gold lace upon gray, being the colour 
of my arms, for ever. To White Hall, and there met with 
Captain Isham, this day come from Lisbone, with letters 
from the Queen to the King, and he did give me letters 
which speak that our fleet is all at Lisbone: and that the 
Queen do not intend to embarque sooner than to-morrow 
come fortnight. 

24th. Comes La Belle Pierce® to see my wife, and to bring 
her a pair of peruques of hair, as the fashion now is for 
ladies to wear; which are pretty, and are of my wife’s own 
hair, or else I should not endure them. After a good while’s 
stay, I went to see if any play was acted, and I found none 
upon the post, it being Passion Weeke. To Westminster 
Hall, and there bought Mr. Grant’s book of observations 
upon the weekly bills of mortality,* which appears to me, 
upon first sight, to be very pretty. 

26th. Up early. This being, by God’s great blessing, the 
fourth solemne day of my cutting for the stone this day four 


1Tt passed the House of Lords on the 9th April. 

2 He had been knighted at the Hague, and afterwards was created a 
Baronet. 

8’ Wife of Surgeon Pierce. 

*Burnet remarks, Own Time, vol. i. p. 401, edit. 1823, that “ Sir 
William Petty published his Observations on the Bills of Mortality, in 
the name of one Grant a papist.” This is confirmed by Evelyn, Diary, 
March 22, 1675. 


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years, and am, by God’s mercy, in very good health, and like 
to do well; the Lord’s name be praised for it! At noon 
come my good guest, Madam Turner, The., and cozen 
Norton, and a gentleman, one Mr. Lewin, of the King’s 
Life-Guard, by the same token he told us of one of his 
fellows killed this morning in a duel. I had a pretty dinner 
for them; viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, 
and a jowle of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy," 
and two neat’s tongues, and cheese, the second. Merry all 
the afternoon, talking, and singing, and piping on the flag- 
eolette. We had a man cook to dress dinner to-day, and 
sent for Jane to help us. 

27th. We settled to pay “the Guernsey,” a small ship 
that come to a great deal of money, it having been un- 
paid ever since before the King come in, by which means not 
only the King’s peace wages, while the ship had lain still, 
but the poor men had been forced to borrow all the money 
due for their wages before they received it, and that at a 
dear rate, God knows; so that many of them had very little 
to receive at the table, which grieved me to see it. To din- 
ner, very merry. 

30th. (Easter day.) Having my old black suit new fur- 
bished, I was pretty neat in clothes to-day; and my boy his 
old suit new trimmed, very handsome. To church in the 
morning, and so home, leaving the two Sir Williams to take 
the Sacrament, which I blame myself that I have hitherto 
neglected all my life, but once or twice at Cambridge.” My 
wife and I to church in the afternoon, and seated ourselves, 
she below me, and by that means the precedence of the pew, 
which my Lady Batten and her daughter takes, is con- 
founded; and after sermon she and I did stay behind them 
in the pew, and went out by ourselves, a good while after 
them, which we judge a very fine project hereafter to avoyd 
contention; so my wife and I to walk an houre or two 
on the leads, which begins to be very pleasant, the garden 
being in good condition: so to supper, which is also well 
served in. We had a lobster to supper, with a crabb Pegg 


1A kind of sweet dish made of eggs, cream, &c., flavoured with the 
juice of tansy, which is a species of odorous herb. 

?This is not in exact accordance with the certificate of Dr, Miles, in 
the Memoirs of Pepys, at the beginning of this volume. 


268 DIARY OF [2d April, 


Pen sent my wife this afternoon, the reason of which we 
cannot think, but something there is of plot or design in it; 
for we have a little while carried ourselves pretty strange to 
them. 

31st. To Sir Thomas Crewe’s lodgings. He hath been 
ill, and continues so, under fits of appoplexy. Among 
other things, he and I did discourse much of Mr. Montagu’s 
base doings, and to the dishonour that he will do my Lord, 
as well as cheating him of two or 3000lI., which is too true. 
Thence to the play, where coming late, and meeting with 
Sir W. Pen, who had got room for my wife and his daughter 
in the pit, he and I into one of the boxes, and there we 
sat and heard “The Little Thiefe,”* a pretty play, and 
well done. 

April 1st. To the Wardrobe, and dined. Here was 
Mr. Harbord, son to Sir Charles Harbord, that lately 
come with letters from my Lord Sandwich to the King. 
He and I, and the two young ladies [Montagu] and my 
wife, to the playhouse—the Opera—and saw “The Mayd in 
the Mill,” a pretty good play; and that being done, in 
their coach I took them to Islington, and then, after a walk 
in the fields, I took them to the great cheese-cake house, 
and entertained them, and so home; and after an houre’s 
stay with my Lady, their coach carried us home, and so weary 
to bed. ; 

2d. Walked to the Spittle,? an houre or two before my 
Lord Mayor and the blewe-coate boys come, which at last 
they did, and a fine sight of charity it is, indeed. We 
got places, and staid to hear a sermon; but, it being a 
Presbyterian one, it was so long, that after above an hour of 
it we went away, and I home, and dined; and then my 
wife and I by water to the Opera, and there saw “ The 
Bondman ” most excellently acted; and though we had 
seen it so often, yet I never liked it better than to-day, 
Tanthe acting Cleron’s part very well, now Roxalana’® is 
gone. We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, 
we having been three days together. Met Mr. Sanchy, 


*By John Fletcher. 

*Christ’s Hospital, where the ’Spital Sermons are still preached 
annually, on Easter Monday and Tuesday. 

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Smithes, Gale, and Edlin, at the play; but having no great 
mind to spend money, I left them there. 

4th. I was much troubled to-day, to see a dead man lie 
floating upon the waters, and had done (they say) these four 
days, and nobody takes him up to bury him, which is very 
barbarous. 

6th. (Lord’s day.) By water to White Hall, to Sir G. 
Carteret, to give him an account of the backwardnesse of 
the ships we have hired to Portugall; at which he is much 
troubled. ‘Thence to the Chapel, and there, though crowded, 
heard a very honest sermon before the King by a Canon of 
Christ Church, upon these words, “* Having a form of godli- 
nesse, but denying,” &c. Among other things, he did much 
insist upon the sin of adultery: which methought might 
touch the King, and the more because he forced it into 
his sermon, besides his text. So up and saw the King at 
dinner; and thence with Sir G. Carteret to his lodgings to 
dinner, with him and his lady. All their discourse, which 
was very much, was upon their sufferings and services for 
the King. Yet not without some trouble, to see that some, 
that had been much bound to them, do now neglect them; 
and others again most civil that have received least from 
them: and I do believe that he hath been a good servant to 
the King. Thence to the Parke, where the King and Duke 
did walk. 

7th. By water to White Hall, and thence to West- 
minister, and staid at the Parliament-door long to speak 
with Mr. Coventry, which vexed me. Thence to the Lords’ 
House, and stood within the House, while the Bishops and 
Lords did stay till the Chancellor’s coming, and then we 
were put out; and they to prayers. There comes a Bishop; 
and while he was rigging himself, he bid his man listen at 
the door, whereabout in the prayers they were; but the 
man told him something, but could not tell whereabouts it 
was in the prayers, nor the Bishop neither, but laughed at 
the conceit; so went in: but, God forgive me! I did tell it 
by and by to people, and did say that the man said that they 
were about something of saving their souls, but could not 
tell whereabouts in the prayers that was. I sent in a note 
to my Lord Privy Seale," and he come out to me; and I 

1Lord Sav and Sele, who died seven days afterwards. 


270 DIARY OF [11th April, 


desired he would make another deputy for me, because of 
my great business of the Navy this month: but he told me 
he could not do it without the King’s consent, which vexed 
me. The great talk is, that the Spaniards and the Hollanders 
do intend to set upon the Portuguese by sea, at Lisbone, 
as soon as our fleet is come away; and by that means our 
fleet is not likely to come yet these two or three months; 
which I hope is not true. 

9th. Sir George’ showed me an account in French of the 
great famine, which is to the greatest extremity in some part 
of France at this day; which is very strange.” 

10th. Yesterday come Colonel Talbot’ with letters from 
Portugall, that the Queen is resolved to embarque for Eng- 
land this week. Thence to the office all the afternoon. My 
Lord Windsor* comes to us to discourse of his affairs, and 
to take his leave of us; he being to go Governor of Jamaica 
with this fleet that is now going. 

11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to Deptford; and 
among the ships now going to Portugall with men and 
horse, to see them dispatched. So to Greenwich; and had 
a fine pleasant walk to Woolwich, having in our company 
Captain Minnes, whom I was much pleased to hear talk. 
Among other things, he and the Captains that were with us 
tell me that negros drowned look white, and loose their 
blackness, which I never heard before.” At Woolwich, up 


1 Carteret. 


?On the Sth of June following, Louis, notwithstanding the scarcity, 
gave that splendid carousal in the court before the Tuileries, from which 
the place has ever since taken its name. 


* Richard Talbot, who figures conspicuously in Grammont’s Mémoires. 
He married, first, Catherine Boynton, and secondly, Frances Jennings, 
eldest sister of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. ‘Talbot was created 
Earl of Tyrconnel by James II., and made Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 
land, and elevated by him to the Dukedom of Tyrconnel after his abdi- 
cation. 


4'Thomas Windsor, Baron Windsor, Lord Lieutenant of Worcester- 
shire; advanced to the Earldom of Plymouth, 1682. Ob. 1687. 


5In the Ethiopian, the black colour does not reside in the cutis, or 
true skin, but in a texture superficial to, and between it and the cuticle. 
This texture, the rete muscorum, in which the dark pigment is situate, 
may be readily dissected off, along with the cuticle, from the true skin, 
which is then exposed, and is of a whitish colour. When the body of 
a negro has long been immersed in water, such a dissection is, as it were, 
performed by the putrefactive process; and the surface of the body 


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and down to do the same business; and so back to Green- 
wich by water. Sir William and I walked into the Parke, 
where the King hath planted trees and made steps in the 
hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent. So up and 
down the house, which is now repayring in the Queen’s 
lodgings. 

13th. (Lord’s day.) In the morning to Paul’s, where I 
heard a pretty good sermon, and thence to dinner with my 
Lady at the Wardrobe; and after much talk with her I 
went to the Temple Church, and there heard another: by 
the same tokens, a boy being asleep, fell down a high seat to 
the ground, ready to break his neck, but got no hurt. Thence 
to Graye’s Inn Walkes; and there met Mr. [Edward] Picker- 
ing. His discourse most about the pride of the Duchess 
of York; and how all the ladies envy my Lord Castle- 
maine. He intends to go to Portsmouth to meet the Queen 
this week; which is now the discourse and expectation of 
the towne. 

15th. With my wife, by coach, to the New Exchange,’ to 
buy her some things; where we saw some new-fashioned 
pettycoats of sarcenett, with a black broad lace printed round 
the bottom and before, very handsome, and my wife had a 
mind to one of them. 

17th. To Mr. Holliard’s in the morning, thinking to be 
let blood, but he was gone out. Sir W. Batten sent for me 
to tell me that he had this day spoke to the Duke about 
raising our houses, and he hath given us leave to do it; at 
which, being glad, I went home merry. 

18th. Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten, and I, met at the 
office, and did conclude of our going to Portsmouth next 
week, in which my mind is at a great loss what to do with 
my wife; for I cannot persuade her to go to Brampton; 
and I am loth to leave her at home. 

19th. This morning, before we sat, I went to Aldgate; 


being thus deprived of its two outer investments, does really look white. 
—Ex inform. Alexander Melville M‘Whinnick, F.R.C.P. 

*In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out 
of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. The 
New Exchange stood where Coutts’s banking-house now is. “It was 
built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars be- 
neath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly with 
milliners, sempstresses, and the like.” 


272 DIARY OF [21st April, 


and at the corner shop, a draper’s,’ I stood, and did see 
Barkstead, Okey, and Corbet, drawne towards the gallows 
at Tiburne; and there they were hanged and quartered. 
They all looked very cheerful; but I hear they all die de- 
fending what they did to the King to be just, which is very 
strange. In the evening did get a bever, an old one, but a 
very good one, of Sir W. Batten, for which I must give him 
something; but I am very well pleased with it. 

20th. (Lord’s day.) My intention being to go this morn- 
ing to Whitehall to hear South,” my Lord Chancellor’s 
chaplain, the famous preacher and oratour of Oxford, who 
the last Lord’s-day did sink down in the pulpit before the 
King, and could not proceed; it did rain, and the wind 
against me, that I could by no means get a boat or coach 
to carry me; and so I staid at Paul’s, where the Judges did 
all meet, and heard a sermon, it being the first Sunday of 
the terme; but they had a very poor sermon. 

21st. At noon dined with my Lord Crewe; and after 
dinner went up to Sir Thomas Crewe’s chamber, who is still 
ill. He tells me how my Lady Duchess of Richmond’ and 
Castlemain had a falling out the other day; and she calls 
the latter Jane Shore, and did hope to see her come to the 
same end. Coming down again to my Lord, he told me 
that news was come that the Queen is landed; at which I 
took leave, and by coach hurried to White Hall, the bells 
ringing in several places; but I found there no such matter, 
nor anything like it. 


* Now actually Moses and Son’s. 


? This was the learned Robert South, then public orator at Oxford, and 
afterwards D.D. and prebendary of Westminster, and canon of Christ- 
church. The story, as copied from a contemporary tract, called Annus 
Mirabilis Secundus, is given with full details in Wood’s Athene, and 
Kennett’s Register. It is by no means devoid of interest; but, having 
been so often printed, need not be here repeated. We may observe, 
however, that South had experienced a similar qualm whilst preaching 
at Oxford a few months before; but these seizures produced no bad 
consequences, as he lived to be eighty-three. 


* Mary, daughter of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, wife 
of James, fourth Duke of Lennox, and third Duke of Richmond, who 
left her a widow secondly in 1655. She had previously married Charles 
Lord Herbert; and she took for her third husband, Thomas Howard, 
brother of the Earl of Carlisle, who fought the duel with Jermyn. See 
August 19, post. 


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22d. After taking leave of my wife, which we could 
hardly do kindly, because of her mind to go along with me, 
Sir W. Pen and I took coach, and so over the bridge to 
Lambeth; W. Bodham and Tom Hewet going as clerkes to 
Sir W. Pen, and my Will for me. Here we got a dish of 
buttered eggs, and there staid till Sir G. Carteret come to 
us from White Hall, who brought Dr. Clerke with him, at 
which I was very glad, and so we set out. We come to 
Gilford, and there passed our time in the garden, cutting up 
sparagus for supper—the best that ever I eat in my life but 
in the house last year. Supped well, and the Doctor and 
I to bed together, calling cozens, from his name and my office." 

23d. Up early, and to Petersfield; and thence got a coun- 
tryman to guide us by Havant, to avoid going through the 
Forest; but he carried us much out of the way. Upon our 
coming, we sent away an express to Sir W. Batten, to stop 
his coming, which I did project to make good my oath, that 
my wife should come, if any of our wives come, which my 
Lady Batten did intend to do with her husband. The 
Doctor and I lay together at Wiard’s, the chyrurgeon’s, in 
Portsmouth; his wife a very pretty woman. We lay very 
well, and merrily; in the morning, concluding him to be of 
the eldest blood and house of the Clerke’s, because that all 
the fleas come to him, and not to me. 

24th. Up and to Sir George Carteret’s lodgings, at Mrs. 
Stephens’s, where we keep our table all the time we are 
here. Thence, all of us to the Pay-house; but the books 
not being ready, we went to church to the lecture, where 
there was my Lord Ormond* and Manchester*® and much 
London company, though not so much as I expected. Here 
we had a very good sermon upon this text: ‘In love 
serving one another;” which pleased me very well. No 
news of the Queen at all. So to dinner; and then to the 
Pay all the afternoon. Then W. Pen and I walked to the 
King’s Yard, and there lay at Mr Tippets’s,* where exceed- 
ing well treated. 

25th. All the morning at Portsmouth, at the Pay, and 


1Clerk of the Acts. 

?The Duke of Ormond, as Lord High Steward. 
3 As Lord Chamberlain, 

* Afterwards knighted as Sir John Tippets. 


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274 DIARY OF [27th April, 


then to dinner, and again to the Pay, and at night got the 
Doctor to go lie with me, and much pleased with his com- 
pany; but I was much troubled in my eyes, by reason of the 
healths I have this day been forced to drink. 

26th. Sir George’ and I, and his clerk, Mr. Stephens, and 
Mr. Holt, our guide, over to Gosport; and so rode to 
Southampton. In our way, besides my Lord Southampton’s* 
parks and lands, which in one viewe we could see 60001. per 
annum, we observed a little churchyard, where the graves 
are accustomed to be all sowed with sage. At Southamp- 
ton, we went to the Mayor’s, and there dined, and had 
sturgeon of their own catching the last week, which do not 
happen in twenty years, and it was well ordered. They 
brought also some caveare, which I attempted to order, but 
all to no purpose, for they had neither given it salt enough, 
nor are the seedes of the roe broke, but are all in berryes. 
The town is one most gallant street, and is walled round 
with stone, &c., and Bevis’s picture upon one of the gates; 
many old walls of religious houses, and the keye, well worth 
seeing. After dinner, to horse again, being in nothing 
troubled but the badness of my hat, which I borrowed to 
save my beaver. 

27th. (Sunday.) Sir W. Pen got trimmed before me, 
and so took the coach to Portsmouth, to wait on my Lord 
Steward [Ormond] to church, and sent the coach for me 
back again; so I rode to church, and met my Lord Cham- 
berlaine [Manchester] upon the walls of the garrison, who 
owned and spoke to me. I followed him in the crowde of 
gallants through the Queen’s lodgings to chapel; the rooms 
being all rarely furnished, and escaped hardly being set 
on fire yesterday. At chapel we had a most excellent and 


1Carteret, who was M.P. for Portsmouth, and Vice-Chamberlain to 
the King. 

? Titchfield House, erected by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, on the site of 
an Abbey of Premonstratenses, granted to him with their estates, 29th 
Henry VIII. Upon the death of his descendant, Thomas Wriothesley, 
Earl of Southampton, the Lord Treasurer, without male issue, the house 
and manor were allotted to his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Ed- 
mund Noel, first Earl of Gainsborough; and their only son dying 
s. p. m., the property devolved to his sister Elizabeth, married to Henry 
Bentinck, first Duke of Portland, whose grandson, the third Duke, 
alienated it to Mr. Delme. The Duke’s second title is taken from this 
place. 


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eloquent sermon. By coach to the Yard, and then on board 
the Swallow in the Dock, where our navy chaplain preached 
a sad sermon, full of nonsense and false Latin; but prayed 
for the Right Honourable the principall officers. Visited 
the Mayor, Mr. Timbrell, our anchor-smith, who showed us 
the present they have for the Queen; which is a salt-sellar 
of silver, the walls christall, with four eagles and four grey- 
hounds standing up at the top to bear up a dish; which indeed 
is one of the neatest pieces of plate that ever I saw, and 
the case is very pretty, also. This evening come a mer- 
chantman in the harbour, which we hired in London to carry 
horses to Portugall; but, Lord! what running there was to 
the seaside, to hear what news, thinking it had come from 
the Queen. 

28th. The Doctor and I begun philosophy discourse ex- 
ceeding pleasant. He offers to bring me into the college of 
virtuosoes,» and my Lord Brouncker’s acquaintance, and 
show me some anatomy, which makes me very glad; and I 
shall endeavour it when I come to London. Sir W. Pen 
much troubled upon letters come last night. Showed me 
one of Dr. Owen’s* to his son, whereby it appears his son is 
much perverted in his opinion by him; which I now per- 
ceive is one thing that hath put Sir William so long off the 
hookes. 

30th. After dinner comes Mr. Stephenson, one of the 
burgesses of the towne, to tell me that the Mayor and 
burgesses did desire my acceptance of a burgess-ship, and 
were ready at the Mayor’s to make me one. So I went, 
and there they were all ready, and did with much civility 
give me my oath, and after the oath, did by custom shake 
me all by the hand; so I took them to a tavern, and made 
them drink, and paying the reckoning, went away. It cost 
me a piece in gold to the Towne Clerke, and 10s. to the 
Bayliffes, and spent 5s. 

May Ist. Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself, with 
our clerks, set out this morning from Portsmouth very 
early, and got by noon to Petersfield; several officers of 


*The Royal Society. 


2 John Owen, D.D., a learned Nonconformist divine, and a voluminous 
theological writer, made Dean of Christ Church in 1653, by the Parlia- 
ment, and ejected in 1659-60. He died at Ealing, in 1683. 


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276 DIARY OF [4th May, 


the Yard accompanying us so far. At dinner comes my 
Lord Carlingford’ from London, going to Portsmouth; tells 
us that the Duchess of York is brought to bed of a girle,’ 
at which I find nobody pleased; and that Prince Rupert and 
the Duke of Buckingham are sworn of the Privy Councell. 

2d. To Dr. Clerke’s lady, and give her her letter and 
token. She is a very fine woman; and what with her 
person, and the number of fine ladies that were with her, 
I was much out of countenance, and could hardly carry 
myself like a man among them; but, however, I staid till 
my courage was up again, and talked to them, and viewed 
his house, which is most pleasant, and so drank and good 
night. 

4th. (Lord’s day.) Mr. Holliard come to me, and let me 
morning, and is come back again. ‘To dinner to my Lady 
Sandwich; and Sir Thomas Crewe’s children coming thither, 
I took them and all my Ladys to the Tower, and showed 
them the lions, and all that was to be shown; Sir Thomas 
Crewe’s children being as pretty, and the best behaved that 
ever I saw of their age. Thence, at the goldsmith’s, took 
my picture in little, which is now done, home with me, and 
pleases me exceedingly, and my wife. 

4th. (Lord’s day.) Mr Holliard come to me, and let me 
blood, about sixteen ounces, I being exceeding full of blood, 
and very good. I begun to be sick; but, lying upon my 
back, I was presently well again, and did give him 5s. for 
his pains. After dinner, my arm tied up with a black 
ribbon, I walked with my wife to my brother Tom’s; our 
boy waiting on us with his sword,’ which this day he begins 
to wear, to outdo Sir W. Pen’s boy, who this day, and Sir 
W. Batten’s, do begin to wear new liverys; but I do take 
mine to be the neatest of them all. I led my wife to 
Mrs. Turner’s pew, the church being full, it being to hear a 
Doctor who is to preach a probacon sermon. When church 
was done, my wife and I walked to Graye’s Inne, to observe 
fashions of the ladies, because of my wife’s making some 
clothes. 


Theobald Taafe, second Viscount Taafe, created Earl of Carling- 
ford, in Ireland, 1661-2. 


Mary, afterwards Queen of England. 
>See 7th Dec. 1661, ante. 


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5th. My arme not being well, my wife to buy some things 
for herself, and a gowne for me to dress myself in. 

6th. Got my seat set up on the leads, which pleases me 
well. 

7th. Walked to Westminster; where I understand the 
news that Mr. Montagu is last night come to the King 
with news, that he left the Queen and fleete in the Bay of 
Biscay, coming this wayward; and that he believes she is 
now at the Isle of Scilly. Thence to Paul’s Church Yard, 
where, seeing my Ladys Sandwich and Carteret, and my 
wife, who this day made a visit the first time to my Lady 
Carteret, come by coach, and going to Hide Parke, I was 
resolved to follow them; and so went to Mrs Turner’s: and 
thence at the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the ** Knight 
of the Burning Pestle,’ which pleased me not at all. And 
so after the play done, she and The. Turner and Mrs. Lucin,* 
and I, in her coach to the Parke; and there found them out, 
and spoke to them, and observed many fine ladies, and staid 
till all were gone almost. 

8th. Sir G. Carteret told me, that the Queen and the fleet 
were in Mount’s Bay on Monday last; and that the Queen 
endures her sickness-pretty well. He also told me how 
Sir John Lawson hath done some execution upon the 
Turkes in the Streights, of which I was glad, and told the 
news the first on the Exchange, and was much followed by 
merchants to tell it. Sir G. Carteret, among other dis- 
course, tells me that it is Mr. Coventry that is to come to 
us as a Commissioner of the Navy; at which he is much 
vexed, and cries out upon Sir W. Pen, and threatens him 
highly. And looking upon his lodgings, which are now 
enlarging, he in a passion cried, “ Guarda mi spada;* for, 
by God, I may chance to keep him in Ireland, when he is 
there!” for Sir W. Pen is going thither with my Lord 
Lieutenant. But it is my design to keep much in with 
Sir George; and I think I have begun very well to- 
wards it. 

9th. To Mr. de Cretz, and there saw some good pieces 


1Blizabeth, who married her cousin, Sir George Carteret, was the 
daughter of Sir Philip Carteret. 

2A comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 

8 Query, Lukyn. * Sic, orig. 


278 DIARY OF [12th May, 


that he hath copyed of the King’s pieces—some of Raphael 
and Michell Angelo; and I have borrowed an Elizabeth of 
his copying to hang up in my house. With Mr. Salisbury, 
who I met there, into Covent Garden, to an alehouse, to see 
a picture that hangs there, which is offered for 20s., and I 
offered fourteen, but it is worth much more money, but did 
not buy it, I having no mind to break my oath. Thence to 
see an Italian puppet play, that is within the rayles there— 
the best that ever I saw, and great resort of gallants. The 
Duke of York went last night to Portsmouth; so that I 
believe the Queen is near. 

10th. At noon to the Wardrobe; there dined. My Lady 
told me how my Lady Castlemaine do speak of going to lie in 
at Hampton Court; which she and all our ladies are much 
troubled at, because of the King’s being forced to show her 
countenance in the sight of the Queen when she comes. In 
the evening, Sir G. Carteret and I did hire a ship for 
Tangier, and other things together; and I find that he do 
single me out to join with me apart from the rest, which I 
am much glad of. 

11th. (Lord’s day.) To our church in the morning. In 
the afternoon to White Hall; and there walked an houre 
or two in the Parke; where I saw the King, now out of 
mourning,’ in a suit laced with gold and silver, which, it is 
said, was out of fashion. ‘Thence to the Wardrobe; and there 
consulted with the ladies about our going to Hampton Court 
to-morrow. 

12th. Mr. Townsend called us up by four o’clock; and 
by five the three ladies, my wife and I, and Mr. Townsend, 
his son and daughter, were got to the barge and set out. 
We walked from Mortlake to Richmond, and so to boat 
again. And from Teddington to Hampton Court Mr. 
Townsend and I walked again. And then met the ladies, 
and were showed the whole house by Mr. Marriot ;? which 
is indeed nobly furnished, particularly the Queen’s bed, 
given her by the States of Holland; a looking-glasse sent 
by the Queen-mother from France, hanging in the Queen’s 
chamber, and many brave pictures. And so to barge again; 
and got home about eight at night very well. Took leave 


1 For his aunt, the Queen of Bohemia. 
?The Housekeeper. 


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of my ladies, and home by a hackney-coach, the easiest that 
ever I met with. 

14th. Dined at the Wardrobe; and after dinner, sat 
talking an hour or two alone with my Lady. She is afraid 
that my Lady Castlemaine will keep in still with the King. 
To my brother’s, and, finding him in a lie about the lining 
of my new mourning gowne, saying that it was the same 
with the outside, I was very angry with him, and parted so. 

15th. To Westminster; and at the Privy Seale I saw Mr. 
Coventry’s seal for his being Commissioner with us, at which 
I know not yet whether to be glad or otherwise. At night, 
all the bells of the towne wrung, and bonfires were made for 
the joy of the Queen’s arrival, who landed at Portsmouth 
last night. But I do not see much true joy, but only an 
indifferent. one, in the hearts of the people, who are much 
discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court, and 
running in debt. 

17th. To the Wardrobe to dinner, where dined Mrs. 
Sanderson,’ the mother of the mayds. After dinner, my 
Lady and she and I on foot to Pater Noster Rowe, to buy 
a petticoat against the Queen’s coming for my Lady, of plain 
satin, and other things; and, being come back again, we 
there met Mr. Nathaniel Crewe at the Wardrobe, with a 
young gentleman, a friend and fellow-student of his, and of 
a good family, Mr. Knightly, and known to the Crewes, of 
whom my Lady privately told me she hath some thoughts 
of a match for my Lady Jemimah. I like the person very 
well, and he hath 20001. per annum. I walked to my 
brother Tom’s to see a velvet cloake, which I buy from Mr. 
Moore. It will cost me 81. 10s.; he bought it for 61. 10s.; 
but it is worth my money. 

18th. (Whitsunday.) By water to White Hall, and there 
to chapel in my pew, belonging to me as Clerke of the Privy 
Seale; and there I heard a most excellent sermon of Dr. 
Hacket,* Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon these 
words: ‘* He that drinketh this water shall never thirst.” 
We had an excellent anthem sung by Captain Cooke and 


1Rugge, in his Diurnal, tells us that the Queen attired herself in the 
English fashion soon after she landed. 


See May 10, 1660, ante. 
8’ John Hacket, elected Bishop of that See, 1661. Ob. 1670. 


280 DIARY OF [20th May, 


another, and brave musique. And then the King come 
down and offered, and took the sacrament upon his knees; 
a sight very well worth seeing. After dinner to chapel 
again; and there had another good anthem of Captain 
Cooke’s. Thence to the Councell-chamber; where the King 
and Councell sat till almost eleven o’clock at night, and I 
forced to walk up and down the gallerys till that time of 
night. They were reading all the bills over that are to pass 
to-morrow at the House, before the King’s going out of 
towne and proroguing the House.* At last, the Councell 
risen, Sir G. Carteret told me what the Councell hath 
ordered about the ships designed to carry horse from Ireland 
to Portugall, which is now altered. 

19th. Up, and put on my riding-cloth suit and camelott 
coat new, which pleases me well enough—the shops being 
but some shut and some open. I hear that the House of 
Commons do think much that they should be forced to 
huddle over business this morning against afternoon, for the 
King to pass their Acts, that he may go out of towne. But 
he, I hear since, was forced to stay till almost nine o’clock 
at night before he could have done, and then prorogued 
them; and so to Gilford, and lay there. My wife walking 
and singing upon the leades till very late, it being pleasant 
and moonshine, and so to bed. 

20th. Sir W. Pen and I did a little business at the office, 
and so home again. Then comes Dean Fuller; and I am 


1To ears accustomed to the official words of speeches from the 
throne at the present day, the familiar tone of the following extracts 
from Charles’s speech to the Commons, on the Ist of March, will be 
amusing:—“ I will conclude with putting you in mind of the season of 
the year, and the convenience of your being in the country, in many 
respects, for the good and welfare of it; for you will find much tares 
have been sowed there in your absence. The arrival of my wife, who 
I expect some time this month, and the necessity of my own being out 
of town to meet her, and to stay some time before she comes hither, 
makes it very necessary that the Parliament be adjourned before Easter, 
to meet again in the winter....The mention of my wife’s arrival puts 
me in mind to desire you to put that compliment upon her, that her. 
entrance into the town may be with more decency than the ways will 
now suffer it to be; and, to that purpose, I pray you would quickly 
pass such laws as are before you, in order to the amending those ways, 
and that she may not find Whitehall surrounded with water.” Such 
a bill passed the Commons on the 24th June—From Charles’s Speech, 
1st March, 1662. 


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most pleased with his company and goodness. My wife and 
I by coach to the Opera, and there saw the 2nd part of 
“The Siege of Rhodes,” but it is not so well done as when 
Roxalana’* was there, who, it is said, is now owned by my 
Lord of Oxford. 

21st. My wife and I to my Lord’s lodgings; where she 
and I staid walking in White Hall Garden. And in the 
Privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linnen petticoats of 
my Lady Castlemaine’s laced with rich lace at the bottom, 
that ever I saw; and did me good to look at them. Sarah’* 
told me how the King dined at my Lady Castlemaine’s, and 
supped, every day and night the last week; and that the 
night that the bonfires were made for joy of the Queen’s 
arrivall, the King was there; but there was no fire at her 
door, though at all the rest of the doors almost in the street ; 
which was much observed: and that the King and she did 
send for a pair of scales and weighed one another; and she, 
being with child,’ was said to be heaviest. But she is now 
a most disconsolate creature, and comes not out of doors, 
since the King’s going. But we went to the Theatre, to the 
French Dancing Mistress,* and there with much pleasure 
we saw and gazed upon Lady Castlemaine; but it troubles 
us to see her look dejectedly, and slighted by people already. 
The play pleased us very well; but Lacy’s part, the Dancing 
mistress, the best in the world.°® 

22d. This morning comes an order from the Secretary of 
State, Nicholas, for me to let one Mr. Lee, a Councellor, 
view what papers I have relating to passages of the late 
times, wherein Sir H. Vane’s hand is employed, in order to 
the drawing up his charge; which I did. At noon, he, with 


1See Feb. 18th, 1661-2 and note. 
?Lord Sandwich’s housekeeper. 


’The Duke of Southampton, Lady Castlemaine’s son by the King, 
was born in May, 1662. ; 

*Pepys should have written “The French Dancing Master,” acted 
by Killigrew’s company, 11th March, 1661-2. See Sir Henry Herbert’s 
Register of Plays performed at the Restoration, in Malone’s Shakespeare, 
by Boswell, vol. iii., p. 275. 

5 No wonder that Lacy performed his part so well, as he had been 
brought up a dancing master. He afterwards procured a Lieutenant’s 
commission in the army, which he soon quitted for the stage, and was 
the author of four plays. Ob. 1681, and buried in the churchyard of 
St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 


282 DIARY OF [23d May, 


Sir W. Pen and his daughter, dined with me, and he to his 
work again, and we by coach to the Theatre, and saw “ Love 
in a Maze.”* The play hath little in it, but Lacy’s part of a 
country-fellow, which he did to admiration. This night we 
had each of us a letter from Captain Teddiman from the 
Streights, of a peace made upon good terms, by Sir J. Law- 
son, with the Algiers men,” which is most excellent news. 
He hath also sent each of us some anchovies, olives, and 
muscatt; but I know not yet what that is, and am ashamed 
to ask. After supper, home and to bed, resolving to make up 
this week in seeing plays and pleasure, and so full of busi- 
ness next week again for a great while. 

23d. To the Wardrobe, reading of the King’s and Chan- 
cellor’s late speeches at the proroguing of the Houses of Par- 
liament. And while I was reading, news was brought me 
that my Lord Sandwich is come, and gone up to my Lady’s 
chamber; which by and by he did, and looks very well. He 
very merry, and hath left the King and Queen at Ports- 
mouth, and is come up to stay here till next Wednesday, and 
then to meet the King and Queen at Hampton Court. So 
to dinner; and my Lord mighty merry; among other things, 
saying that the Queen is a very agreeable lady, and paints 
well. After dinner, I showed him my letter from Teddiman 
about the news from Algiers, which pleases him exceedingly ; 
and he writ one to the Duke of York about it, and sent it 
express.” There coming much company after dinner to my 
Lord, my wife and I slunk away to the Opera, where we saw 
“Witt in a Constable,’* the first time that it is acted; but 
so silly a play I never saw I think in my life. After it was 
done, my wife and I to the puppet play in Covent Garden, 


1“Tove in a Maze” is the second title of Shirley’s play of “The 
Changes.” 

?The articles of peace between Charles II. and Algiers, concluded 
30th Aug. 1664, by Admiral Thomas Allen, according to instructions 
from the Duke of York, being the same articles concluded by Sir John 
Lawson, 23d April, 1662, and confirmed 10th November following. 
They are reprinted in Somers’s Tracts, vol. vii., p. 554, Sir W. Scott’s 
edition. 

8“ T came to the Wardrobe in London to my family, where I met 2 
letter from Captain Teddiman to Mr. Samuel Pepys, showing the news 
of Sir John Lawson’s having made peace with Algiers, they agreeing 
not to search our ships.”—Lord Sandwich’s Journal, 23d May. 


*A comedy, by Henry Glapthorne. 


ose a 


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which I saw the other day, and indeed it is very pleasant. 
Here, among the fiddlers, I first saw a dulcimere’ played 
on with sticks knocking of the strings, and is very pretty. 

24th. To the Wardrobe, and there again spoke with my 
Lord, and saw W. Howe, who is grown a very pretty, and 
is a sober fellow. Abroad with Mr. Creed, of whom I 
informed myself of all I had a mind to know. Among 
other things, the great difficulty my Lord hath been in 
all this summer, for lack of good and full orders from the 
King: and I doubt our Lords of the Councell do not mind 
things as the late powers did, but their pleasure or profit 
more. That the Juego de Toros’ is a simple sport, yet the 
greatest in Spaine. That the Queen hath given no rewards 
to any of the captains or officers, but only to my Lord 
Sandwich; and that was a bag of gold, which was no 
honourable present, of about 1400I. sterling. How recluse 
the Queen hath even been, and all the voyage never come 
upon the deck, nor put her head out of her cabin; but did 
love my Lord’s musique, and would send for it down to the 
state-room, and she sit in her cabin within hearing of it. 
But my Lord was forced to have some clashing with the 
Council of Portugall about payment of the portion, before 
he could get it; which was, beside Tangier and a free trade 
in the Indys, two millions of crownes, half now, and the 
other half in twelve months. But they have brought but 
little money; but the rest in sugars and other commoditys, 
and bills of exchange. That the King of Portugall is a very 
foole almost, and his mother do all, and he is a very poor 
Prince. 

25th. (Lord’s day.) To trimming myself, which I have 
this week done every morning, with a pumice stone, which 
I learnt of Mr. March, when I was last at Portsmouth; and 
I find it very easy, speedy, and cleanly, and shall continue 
the practice of it. To church, and heard a good sermon of 
Mr. Woodcocke’s, at our church; only in his latter prayer 
for a woman in childbed, he prayed that God would de- 
liver her from the hereditary curse of childe-bearing, which 
seemed a pretty strange expression. Looked into many 


*For a description of the different musical instruments mentioned 
by Pepys, see Burney’s and Hawkins’s Histories of Music. 
? See 7th Noy., 1661, ante. 


284 DIARY OF [29th May, 


churches—among others, Mr. Baxter’s, at Blackfryers. Out 
with Captain Ferrers to Charing Cross; and there at the 
Triumph taverne he showed me some Portugall ladys, which 
are come to towne before the Queen. ‘They are not hand- 
some, and their farthingales a strange dress. Many ladies 
and persons of quality come to see them. I find nothing in 
them that is pleasing; and I see they have learnt to kiss and 
look freely up and down already, and I do believe will soon 
forget the recluse practice of their own country. ‘They 
complain much for lack of good water to drink. ‘The 
King’s guards and some City companies do walke up and 
downe the towne these five or six days; which makes me 
think, and they do say, there are some plots in laying. 

26th. Up at four o’clock in the morning, and fell to the 
preparing of some accounts for my Lord of Sandwich. By 
and by, by appointment comes Mr. Moore, and, by what 
appears to us at present, we found that my Lord is above 
70001. in debt, and that he hath money coming into him 
that will clear all, so we think him clear, but very little 
money in his purse. So to my Lord’s, and, after he was 
ready, we spent an hour with him, giving him an account 
thereof; and he having some 6000/1. in his hands, remaining 
of the King’s, he is resolved to make use of that, and 
get off of it as well as he can. To the Trinity House; 
where the Brethren have been at Deptford choosing a new 
Master; which is Sir J. Minnes, notwithstanding Sir W. 
Batten did contend highly for it; at which I am not a 
little pleased, because of his proud lady. I seated myself 
close by Mr. Prin, who in discourse with me, fell upon what 
records he hath of the lusts and wicked lives of the nuns 
heretofore in England, and showed me out of his pocket one 
wherein thirty nuns, for their lust, were ejected of their 
house, being not fit to live there, and, by the Pope’s com- 
mand, to be put for ever into other nunnerys. 'To the Redd 
Bull,* where we saw “ Dr. Faustus,’’ but so wretchedly and 
poorly done, that we were sick of it. Homewards by coach, 
through Moorefields, where we stood awhile, and saw the 
wrestling. 

29th. At home all the morning. At noon to the Ward- 


1See 23rd March, 1661, ante, and note. 
?“ Dr. Faustus,” a tragical history, by Christopher Marlow. 


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robe, and dined with my Lady, and, after dinner, staid long 
talking with her: then homeward, and, in Lumbard Streete, 
was called out of a window by Alderman Backwell, where I 
went, and saluted his lady, a very pretty woman. Here was 
Mr. Creed, and it seems they have been under some dis- 
order in feare of a fire at the next door, and had been re- 
moving their goods, but the fear was over before I come. 
Thence home, and with my wife and the two maids and the 
boy took boat and to Fox-hall, where I had not been a great 
while. To the old Spring Garden, and there walked long, 
and the wenches gathered pinks. Here we staid, and seeing 
that we could not have anything to eate but very dear, and 
with long stay, we went forth again without any notice 
taken of us, and so we might have done if we had had any- 
thing. Thence to the New one, where I never was before, 
which much exceeds the other; and here we also walked, 
and the boy crept through the hedge, and gathered abun- 
dance of roses, and after a long walk, passed out of doors as 
we did in the other place, and so to another house that was 
an ordinary house, and here we had cakes and powdered 
beef and ale, and so home again by water, with much plea- 
sure. This day, being the King’s birthday, was very so- 
lemnly observed; and the more, for that the Queen this day 
comes to Hampton Court. In the evening, bonfires were 
made, but nothing to the great number that was heretofore 
at the burning of the Rump. 

30th. This morning I made up my accounts, and find 
myself clear worth about 5301., and no more, so little have 
I encreased it since my last reckoning, but I confess I 
have laid out much money in clothes. Upon a suddaine 
motion, I took my wife and Sarah and Will by water, with 
some victuals with us, as low as Gravesend, intending to 
have gone into the Hope to the Royal James, to have seen 
the ship and Mr. Shepley, but meeting Mr. Shepley in a 
hoy, bringing up my Lord’s things, she and I went on 
board, and sailed up with them as far as half-way tree, 
very glad to see Mr. Shepley. Here we saw a little Turke 
and a negroe, which are intended for pages to the two 
young ladies [Montagu]. Many birds and other pretty 
noveltys there was, but I was afraid of being louzy, and so 
took boat again, and got to London before them, all the 


286 DIARY OF [2d June, 


way, coming and going, reading in the “ Wallflower ”* with 
great pleasure. So home, and thence to the Wardrobe, 
where Mr. Shepley was come with the things. Here I staid 
talking with my Lady, who is preparing to go to-morrow to 
Hampton Court. So home, and at ten o’clock at night 
Mr. Shepley come to sup with me; so we had a dish of 
mackarell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going 
to lie on board the hoy. 

31st. Had Sarah to comb my head clean, which I found 
so foul with powdering and other troubles, that I am re- 
solved to try how I can keep my head dry without powder; 
and I did also in a sudden fit cut off all my beard, which 
I. had been a great while bringing up, only that I may 
with my pumice stone do my whole face as I now do my 
chin, and to save time, which I find a very easy way, and 
gentile. She also washed my feet in a bath of herbes, and 
so to bed. The Queen is brought a few days since to 
Hampton Court; and all people say of her to be a very fine 
and handsome lady, and very discreet; and.that the King is 
pleased enough with her; which, I fear, will put Madam 
Castlemaine’s nose out of joynt. The Court is wholly now 
at Hampton. <A peace with Algiers is lately made; which 
is also good news. My Lord Sandwich is lately come with 
the Queen from sea, very well and in good repute. The 
Act for Uniformity is lately printed, which, it is thought, 
will make mad work among the Presbyterian ministers. 
People of all sides are very much discontented; some think- 
ing themselves used, contrary to promise, too hardly; and 
the other, that they are not rewarded so much as they ex- 
pected, by the King. 

June Ist. (Lord’s day.) At church in the morning, a 
stranger made a very good sermon. Mr. Spong came to 
see me; so he and I sat down a little to sing some French 
psalms. To church again, where a Presbyter made a sad and 
long sermon, which vexed me. 

2d. Spoke to my Lord about exchange of the crusados? 


1A very singular book by Dr. Thomas Bayly—Herba Parietis; or, 
the Wall-flower, as it grew out of the Stone Chamber belonging to 
Newgate. Lond. 1650. Folio. 


? The coin in which part of the Queen’s portion was paid. 


os eae 


——-— 


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into sterling money. This day, my wife put on her slashed 
wastecoate, which is very pretty. 

3d. Up by four o’clock, and to my business in my 
chamber, to even accounts with my Lord and myself, and 
very fain I would become master of 10001., but I have not 
above 5301. towards it yet. At the office, and Mr. Coventry 
brought his patent, and took his place with us this morning. 
Upon our making a contract, I went, as I use to do, to 
draw the heads thereof, but Sir W. Pen most basely told 
me that the Comptroller is to do it, and so begun to employ 
Mr. Turner about it, at which I was much vexed, and begun 
to dispute; and what with the letter of the Duke’s orders, 
and Mr. Barlow’s letter, and the practice of our predeces- 
sors, which Sir G. Carteret knew best when he was Comp- 
troller, it was ruled for me. What Sir J. Minnes will do, 
when he comes, I knowe not, but Sir W. Pen did it like a 
base raskall, and so I shall remember him while I live. To 
the Tower wharfe, where Mr. Creed and Shepley was ready 
with three chests of the crusados, being about 6000I., ready 
to bring on shore to my house, which they did, and put it 
in my further cellar. I to my father and Dr. Williams and 
Tom Trice, by appointment, in the Old Bayly, to Short’s, 
the alehouse, but could come to no terms with T. Trice. 
Thence to the Wardrobe, where I found my Lady come from 
Hampton Court, where the Queen hath used her very 
civilly, and my Lady tells me is a most pretty woman. Yes- 
terday, Sir R. Ford told me, the Aldermen of the City did 
attend her in their habits, and did present her with a gold 
cupp and 1000I. in gold therein. But, he told me, that they 
are so poore in their chamber, that they were fain to call 
two or three Aldermen to raise fines to make up this sum, 
among which was Sir W. Warren. Home and to bed, my 
mind troubled about the charge of money that is in my 
house, which I had forgot, but I made the maids to rise and 
light a candle, and set it in the dining-room, to scare away 
thieves. 

4th. Povy* and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Wool- 


1Thomas Povy, who had held, under Cromwell, a high situation in 
the Office of Plantations, was appointed in July, 1660, Treasurer and 
Receiver-General of the Rents and Revenues of James, Duke of York 
but his royal master’s affairs falling into confusion, he surrendered his 


288 DIARY OF [7th June 


wich; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Forde’s 
Holland’s yarne, about which we have lately had so much 
stir; and I have much concerned myself for our rope-maker, 
Mr. Hughes, who represented it so bad, and we found it to 
be very bad, and broke sooner than, upon a fair trial, five 
threads of that against four of Riga yarne; and also that 
some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred, covered over 
with new hempe, which is such a cheat as hath not been 
heard of. I was glad of this discovery, because I would not 
have the King’s workmen discouraged (as Sir W. Batten do 
most basely do) from representing the faults of merchants’ 
goods when there is any. To my Lord’s, who I find re- 
solved to buy Brampton Manor of Sir Peter Ball, at which 
I am glad. 

5th. To Alderman Backwell’s, to see some thousands of 
my Lord’s crusados weighed, and we find that 3,000 comes 
to about 5301. or 40 generally 

6th. The smith being with me did open a chest, that hath 
stood ever since I come, in my office, and there we found ea 
modell of a fine ship. 

"th. To the office. I find Mr. Coventry is resolved to do 
much good, and to enquire into all the miscarriages of the 
office. At noon with him and Sir W. Batten to dinner at 
Trinity House; where, among others, Sir J. Robinson, 
Lieutenant of the Tower, was, who says that yesterday, Sir 
H. Vane had a full hearing at the King’s Bench, and is found 
guilty; and that he did never hear any man argue more 
simply than he in all his life, and so others say. Sent for 


patent on the 27th July, 1668, for a consideration of 20001. He was 
also First Treasurer for Tangier, which office he resigned to Pepys. 
Povy had apartments at Whitehall, besides his lodgings in Lincoln’s 
Inn, and a villa near Hounslow, called the Priory, which he had inhe- 
rited from Justinian Povy, who purchased it in 1625. He was one of 
the sons of Justinian Povy, Auditor-General to Queen Anne of Den- 
mark in 1614, whose father was John Povy, citizen and embroiderer of 
London. Justinian obtained a grant of arms: sable, a bend engrailed 
between six cinque-foils, or, with an annulet for difference. Thomas 
Povy had two brothers—Richard, who was Commissioner-General of 
Provisions at Jamaica; and William, Provost-Marshal at Barbadoes. 
Evelyn describes Thomas Povy, then one of the Masters of Requests 
[Diary, 29th February, 1675-6], as “a nice contriver of all elegancies, 
and exceedingly formal.” By Pepys’s report, he was “a wretched ac- 
countant.” His letter-books are in the British Museum, 


ge a or 


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to Sir G. Carteret’s. I perceive, as he told me, were it not 
that Mr. Coventry had already feathered his nest in selling 
of places, he do like him very well, and hopes great good 
from him. But he complains so of lack of money, that 
my heart is very sad, under the apprehension of the fall 
of the office. 

8th. (Lord’s day.) To church, and there M: Mills 
preached but a lazy sermon. Walked to my Lady’s, and 
merry with the parrott which my Lord hath brought from 
sea, which speaks very well, and cries Pall so pleasantly, that 
made my Lord give it my Lady Paulina, but my Lady her 
mother do not like it. Home, and observe my man Will to 
walk with his cloak flung over his shoulder, which whether 
it was that he might not be seen to walk along with the foot- 
boy I know not, but I was vexed at it; and coming home, 
and after prayers, I did ask him where he learned that im- 
modest garb; and he answered me, that it was not immodest, 
or some such slight answer, at which I did give him two 
boxes on the eares, which I never did before. 

9th. At the office with Mr. Hater, making my alphabet 
of contracts. Greatorex recommended Bond of our end of 
the town to teach me to measure timber. 

10th. All the morning much business; and great hopes of 
bringing things, by Mr. Coventry’s means, to a good con- 
dition in the office. 

11th. Savill the painter come, and did varnish over my 

wife’s picture and mine, and I paid him for my little picture 
31. and so am clear with him. 

12th. I tried on my riding-cloth suit with close knees, the 
first that ever I had; and I think they will be very conve- 
nient, if not too hot to wear any other open knees after 
them. At the office all the morning. Among other busi- 
nesses, I did get a vote signed by all concerning my issuing 
of warrants, which they did not smell the use I intend to 
make of it; but it is to plead for my clerks to have their 
right of giving out all the warrants. A great difference 
happened between Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry about 
passing the Victuallers’ account, and whether Sir George is 
to pay the Victualler his money, or the Exchequer; Sir 
George claiming it to be his place to save his threepences. 
It ended in anger, and I believe will come to be a question 

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290 | DIARY OF _ [14th June, 


before the King and Council. A note come from my brother 
Tom to tell me that my cozen Anne Pepys of Worchester- 
shire her husband is dead and [she] married again, and her 
second husband’ in town, and intends to come and see me 
to-morrow. 

13th. Up by 4 o’clock in the morning, and read Cicero’s 
Second Oration against Catiline, which pleased me exceed- 
ingly; and more I discern therein than ever I thought was 
to be found in him; but I perceive it was my ignorance, and 
that he is as good a writer as ever I read in my life. By 
and by to Sir G. Carteret’s, to talk with him about yester- 
day’s difference at the office; and offered my service to look 
into any old books or papers that I have, that may make 
for him. He was well pleased therewith, and did much in- 
veigh against Mr. Coventry; telling me how he had done 
him service in the Parliament, when Prin had drawn up 
things against him for taking of money for places; that he 
did at his desire, and upon his letters, keep him off from 
doing it. And many other things he told me, as how the 
King was beholden to him, and in what a miserable con- 
dition his family would be, if he should die before he hath 
cleared. his accounts. Upon the whole, I do find that he do 
much esteem of me, and is my friend, and I may make good 
use of him. 

14th. Up by four o’clock in the morning, and upon busi- 
ness at my office. Then we sat down to business, and about 
11 o’clock, having a room got ready for us, we all went out 
to the Tower-hill; and there, over against the scaffold, made 
on purpose this day, saw Sir Henry Vane’ brought. A 
very great press of people. He made a long speech, many 
times interrupted by the Sheriffe and others there; and 
they would have taken his paper out of his hand, but he 
would not let it go. But they caused all the books of those 
that writ after him’ to be given the Sheriffe; and the trum- 
pets were brought under the scaffold that he might not be 
heard. Then he prayed, and so befitted himself, and re- 
ceived the blow; but the scaffold was so crowded that we 


* Fisher. See the 15th of this month. 
?See Burnet’s account of his conduct, Hist. of His Own Time, vol. i, 
p. 277, edit. 1823. 5i.¢e., the reporters. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 291 


could not see it done. But Boreman,’ who had been upon 
the scaffold, told us, that first he began to speak of the 
irregular proceedings against him; that he was, against 
Magna Charta, denied to have his exceptions against the 
indictment allowed; and that there he was stopped by the 
Sheriffe. Then he drew out his paper of notes, and begun 
to tell them first his life; that he was born a gentleman; 
he had been, till he was seventeen years old, a good fellow, 
but then it pleased God to lay a foundation of grace in his 
heart, but which he was persuaded, against his worldly in- 
terest, to leave all preferment and go abroad, where he 
might serve God with more freedom. Then he was called 
home, and made a member of the Long Parliament; where 
he never did, to this day, any thing against his conscience, 
but all for the glory of God. Here he would have given 
them an account of the proceedings of the Long Parliament, 
but they so often interrupted him, that at last he was forced 
to give over; and so fell into prayer for England in generall, 
then for the churches in England, and then for the City of 
London: and so fitted himself for the block, and received 
the blow. He had a blister, or issue, upon his neck, which 
he desired them not. to hurt; he changed not his colour or 
speech to the last, but died justifying himself and the cause 
he had stood for; and spoke very confidently of his being 
presently at the right hand of Christ; and in all things 
appeared the most resolved man that ever died in that man- 
ner, and showed more of heate than cowardice, but yet with 
all humility and gravity. One asked him why he did not 
pray for the King. He answered, “* You shall see I can 
pray for the King: I pray God bless him!” The King had 
given his body to his friends; and, therefore, he told them 
that he hoped they would be civil to his body when dead; 
and desired they would let him die like a gentleman and a 
Christian, and not crowded and pressed as he was. So to 
the office a little, and to the Trinity-House, and there all of 
us to dinner; and to the office again all the afternoon till 
night. This day, I hear, my Lord Peterborough is come 
unexpected from Tangier, to give the King an account of 
the place, which, we fear, is in none of the best condition. 
We had also certain news to-day that the Spaniard is before 
1Sir William Boreman, Clerk to the Board of Green Cloth. 
u2 


292 DIARY OF [19th June, 


Lisbone with thirteen sayle; six Dutch, and the rest his 
own ships; which will, I fear, be ill for Portugall. I writ 
a letter of all this day’s proceedings to my Lord, at Hinch- 
ingbroke, who, I hear, is very well pleased with the work 
there. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) To church. Come my brother Tom 
and Mr. Fisher, my cozen, Nan Pepys’s 2nd husband, who, 
I perceive, is a very good-humoured man, an old cavalier, 
and I am glad she hath light of so good a man. 

16th. To the Wardrobe, and dined there; and in the 
afternoon with all the children by water to Greenwich; 
where I showed them the King’s yacht, the house, and the 
parke, all very pleasant; and so to the taverne, and had 
the musique of the house, and so merrily home again. 

17th. At Sir W. Batten’s, where all met by chance, 
and talked, and they drink wine, but I forbore all their 
healths. Sir John Minnes, I perceive, is most excellent 
company. 

18th. Up early; and, after reading a little in Cicero, to 
my office. To my Lord Crewe’s, and dined with him; 
where I hear the courage of Sir H. Vane at his death is 
talked on every where as a miracle. I walked to Lilly’s,* 
the painter’s, where I saw, among other rare things, the 
Duchess of York, her whole body, sitting in state in a chair, 
in white sattin, and another of the King, that is not finished ; 
most rare things. I did give the fellow something that 
showed them us, and promised to come some other time, 
and he would show me Lady Castlemaine’s, which I could 
not then see, it being locked up! Thence to Wright’s,” the 
painter’s; but, Lord! the difference that is between their 
two works. After some merry discourse in the kitchen with 
my wife and maids, as I now-a-days often do, I being well 
pleased with both my maids, to bed. 

19th. With the last chest of crusados to Alderman 
Backwell’s, by the same token his lady going to take 
coach stood in the shop, and having a gilded glass-full of 
perfumed comfits given her by Don Duarte de Silon, the 
Portugall merchant that is come over with the Queen, I 


1Sir Peter Lely. See 22nd October, 1660. 
2 Michael Wright, a native of Scotland, and portrait-painter of some 
note, settled in London. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 293 


did offer at a taste, and so she poured some out into my 
hand, and though good, yet pleased me the better coming 
from a pretty lady. 

20th. Up by four or five o’clock, and to the office, and 
there drew up the agreement between the King and Sir 
John Winter’ about the Forrest of Deane; and, having 
done it, he come himself (I did not know him to be the 
Queen’s Secretary before, but observed him to be a man of 
fine parts); and we read it, and both liked it well. That 
done, I turned to the Forrest of Deane, in Speede’s Mapps, 
and there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-Bayly,’ 
with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many 
other things worth my knowing; and I do perceive that I 
am very short in my business by not knowing many times 
the geographical part of my business. I went to the Ex- 
change, and I hear that the merchants have a great fear of 
a breach with the Spaniard; for they think he will not 
brook our having Tangier, Dunkirke, and Jamaica; and our 
merchants begin to draw home their estates as fast as they 
can. To Pope’s Head Ally, and there bought me a pair of 
tweezers that cost me 14s,, the first thing like a bawble I 
have bought a good while. In the evening, my wife and I 
and Jane over the water to the half-way house—a pretty 
pleasant walk, but the wind high. 

21st. At noon, Sir W. Pen and I to the Trinity House, 
where was a feast made by the Wardens. Great good cheer, 
and much but ordinary company. The Lieutenant of the 
Tower, upon my demanding how Sir H. Vane died, told me 
that he died in a passion, but all confess with so much 
courage as never man did. 

22d. (Lord’s day.) I first put on my slasht doublet. By 
and by my Lord come from church, and I dined, with some 
others, with him—he very merry; and after dinner took me 
aside, and talked of state and others matters. This day I am 
told of a Portugall lady, at Hampton Court, that hath 
dropped a child already since the Queen’s coming, and the 
King would not have them searched whose it is; and so it is 
not commonly known yet. Coming home to night I met with 
Will. Swan, who do talk as high for the Fanatiques as ever 


1Secretary and Chancellor to the Queen Dowager. 
? A hamlet in the parish of Newland, Gloucestershire. 


294 DIARY OF [26th June, 


he did in his life; and do pity my Lord Sandwich and me, 
that we should be given up to the wickedness of the world, 
and that a fall is coming upon us all; for he finds that he 
and his company are the true spirit of the nation, and the 
greater part of the nation too, who will have liberty of con- 
science in spite of this *“* Act of Uniformity,” or they will 
die; and if they may not preach abroad, they will preach 
in their own houses. He told me that certainly Sir H. Vane 
must be gone to Heaven, for he died as much a martyr and 
saint as ever man did; and that the King hath lost more by 
that man’s death, than he will get again a good while. At 
all which I know not what to think; but, I confess, I do 
think that the Bishops will never be able to carry it so high 
as they do. 

23d. Meeting with Frank Moore, my Lord Lambert’s 
man formerly, we, and two or three friends of his, did go to 
a taverne; and there they drank, but I nothing but small 
beer. In the next room one was playing very finely of the 
dulcimer, which, well played, I like well; but one of our 
company, a talking fellow, did in discourse say much of 
this Act against Seamen, for their being brought to account ; 
and that it was made on purpose for my Lord Sandwich, 
who was in debt 100,000/., and hath been forced to have 
pardon oftentimes from Oliver for the same; at which I 
was vexed. 

24th. (Midsummer day.) Come to me my cozen Harry 
Alcocke, whom I much respect, to desire (by a letter from 
my father to me, where he had been some days) my help 
for him to some place. I proposed the sea to him, and I 
think he will take it, and I hope do well. At night, news 
is brought me that Field,’ the rogue, hath this day cast me 
at Guildhall in 301. for his imprisonment, to which I signed 
his commitment with the rest of the officers; but they 
having been Parliament-men, he do begin the law with me, 
but threatens more. 

25th. Into Thames Street, and there enquire among the 
ships the price of tarre and oyle, and do find great content 
in it, and hope to save the King money by this practice. 

26th. Mr Nicholson,” my old fellow-student at Magda- 


1See Feb. 4, 1661-2, ante. 
2Thomas Nicholson, A.M. 1672. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 295 


lene, come, and we played three or four things upon the 
violin and basse. 

27th. To my Lord, who rose as soon as he heard I was 
there; and in his night-gown and shirt stood talking with 
me alone two hours, I believe, concerning his greatest mat- 
ters of state and interest. Among other things, that his 
greatest design is, first, to get clear of all debts to the King 
for the Embassy money, and then a pardon. Then, to get 
his land settled; and then to discourse and advise what is 
best for him, whether to keep his sea employment longer or 
no; for he do discern that the Duke would be willing to 
have him out, and that by Coventry’s means. And here he 
told me, how the terms at Algiers were wholly his; and 
that he did plainly tell Lawson and agree with him, that he 
would have the honour of them, if they should ever be agreed 
to; and that accordingly they did come over hither entitled, 
** Articles concluded on by Sir J. Lawson, according to in- 
structions received from His Royal Highness James Duke 
of York, &c., and from His Excellency the Earle of Sand- 
wich ;’—which however was more than needed; but Lawson 
tells my Lord, in his letter, that it was not he, but the 
Council of War, that would have “ His Royal Highness ” 
put into the title, though he did not contribute one word to 
it. But the Duke of York did yesterday propose them to 
the Council, to be printed with this title: ‘‘ Concluded on 
by Sir J. Lawson, Knt.,” and my Lord quite left out. Here 
I find my Lord very politique; for he tells me, that he dis- 
cerns they design to set up Lawson as much as they can: 
and that he do counterplot them by setting him up higher 
still; by which they will find themselves spoiled of their 
design, and at last grow jealous of Lawson. This he told 
me with much pleasure; and that several of the Duke’s 
servants, by name my Lord Barkeley, [of Stratton,] Mr. 
Talbot, and others, had complained to my Lord, of Coventry, 
and would have him out. My Lord do acknowledge that 
his greatest obstacle is Coventry. He did seem to hint 
such a question as this: * Hitherto I have been supported 
by the King and Chancellor against the Duke; but what 
if it should come about, that it should be the Duke and 
Chancellor against the King;” which, though he said it in 


296 DIARY OF [28th June, 


several plain words, yet I could not fully understand it; but 
may more hereafter. My Lord did also tell me, that the 
Duke himself at Portsmouth did thank my Lord for all his 
pains and care; and that he perceived it must be the old 
Captains that must do the business; and that the new ones 
would spoil all. And that my Lord did very discreetly tell 
the Duke (though quite against his judgement and incli- 
nation), that, however, the King’s new Captains ought to be 
borne with a little and encouraged. By which he will oblige 
that party, and prevent, as much as may be, their envy; but 
he says certainly things will go to rack if ever the old 
Captains should be wholly out, and the new ones only com- 
mand. I met Sir W. Pen:* he told me the day now was 
fixed for his going into Ireland; and that whereas I had 
mentioned some service he could do a friend of mine there, 
Samuel Pepys,’ he told me he would most readily do what I 
would command him. Comes Sir J. Minnes, and some 
Captains with him, who had been at a Councill of Warr to- 
day, who tell us they have acquitted Captain Hall, who was 
accused of cowardice in letting of old Winter, the Algiers 
pyrate, go away from him with a prize or two; and also 
Captain Diamond of the murder laid to him of a man that 
he had struck, but he lived many months after, till being 
drunk, he fell into the hold, and there broke his jawe and 
died. 

28th. Great talk there is of a fear of a war with the 
Dutch; and we have order to pitch upon twenty ships to be 
forthwith set out; but I hope it is but a scare-crow to the 
world, to let them see that we can be ready for them; 
though, God knows! the King is not able to set out five 
ships at this present without great difficulty, we neither 
having money, credit, nor stores. My mind is now in a 
wonderful condition of quiet and content, more than ever in 
all my life, since my minding the busines of my office, 
which I have done most constantly; and I find it to be the 
very effect of my late oaths against wine and plays, which, 
if God please, I will keep constant in; for now my business 
is a delight to me, and brings me great credit, and my purse 
encreases too. 


1Penn was Governor of Kinsale. 
2 Mentioned elsewhere as “ My cousin in Ireland.” 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 297 


29th. (Lord’s day.) Up by four o’clock, and to the set- 
tling of my own accounts; and I do find upon my monthly 
ballance that I am worth 6501. To church with my wife, who 
this day put on her green petticoate of flowred satin, with 
fine white and black gimp lace of her own putting on, which 
is very pretty. To supper to Sir W. Pen. It was an invita- 
tion in order to his taking leave of us to-day, he being to go 
for Ireland in a few days. 

30th. To my office, where I fell upon boring holes for me 
to see from my closet into the great office, without going 
forth, wherein I please myself much. Told my Lady 
[Carteret] how my Lady Fanshaw' is fallen out with her 
only for speaking in behalf of the French, which my Lady 
wonders at, they having been formerly like sisters. Thence 
to my house, where I took great pride to lead her through 
the Court by the hand, she being very fine, and her page 
carrying up her train, she staying a little at my house, and 
then walked through the garden, and took water, and went 
first on board the King’s pleasure-boat, which pleased her 
much. Then to Greenwiche Parke; and with much ado 
she was able to walk up to the top of the hill, and so down 
again, and took boat, and so through bridge to Blackfryers, 
and home, she being much pleased with the ramble in every 
particular of it. So we supped with her, and then walked 
home and to bed. 


OBSERVATIONS. 


This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I observed. 
The King and his new Queen minding their pleasures at 
Hampton Court. All people discontented; some that the 
King do not gratify them enough; and the others, Fanatiques 
of all sorts, that the King do take away their liberty of con- 
science; and the height of the Bishops, who I fear will ruin 
all again. They do much cry up the manner of Sir H. Vane’s 
death, and he deserves it. Much clamour against the 


*Anne, daughter of Sir John Harrison, of Balls, in Hertfordshire, 
wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, see 29th June, 1669. She wrote me- 
moirs of her life, which have been published, and are extremely in- 
teresting. 


298 DIARY OF [2d July, 


chimney-money; and the people say, they will not pay it 
without force. And in the mean time, like to have war 
abroad; and Portugall to assist, when we have not money 
to pay for any ordinary layings-out at home. All in dirt 
about building of my house, and Sir W. Batten’s, a story 
higher. Into a good way, fallen on minding my business 
and saving money, which God encrease; and I do take 
great delight in it, and see the benefit of it. In a longing 
mind of going to see Brampton, but cannot get three 
days time, do what I can. In very good health my wife 
and myself. 


July Ist. Talking with my wife, who was afraid I did 
intend to go with my Lord to fetch the Queen hither over, 
in which I did clear her doubts. I went to bed by day- 
light, in order to my rising early. 

2d. Up while the chimes went four, and so put down my 
journal. So to my office, to read over such instructions as 
concern the officers of the Yard; for I am much upon seeing 
into the miscarriages there. By and by, by appointment, 
comes Commissioner Pett; and then a messenger from Mr. 
Coventry, who sits in his boat expecting us. So we down 
to him at the Tower, and there took water all, and to Dept- 
ford, he in our passage taking notice how much difference 
there is between the old Captains for obedience and order, 
and the King’s new Captains, which I am very glad to hear 
him confess; and there we went into the Store-house, and 
viewed first the provisions there, and then his books, but 
Mr. Davis himself was not there, he having a kinswoman in 
the house dead, for which, when by and by I saw hin, he 
do trouble himself most ridiculously, as if there was never 
another woman in the world; in which so much laziness, as 
also in the Clerkes of the Cheque and Survey, as that I do 
not perceive that there is one-third of their duties per- 
formed; but I perceive, to my great content, Mr. Coventry 
will have things performed. ‘To the Pay againe, where I 
did relieve several of my Lord Sandwich’s people, but was 
sorry to see them so peremptory, and at every word would 
complain to my Lord, as if they shall have such a command 
over my Lord. In the evening come Mr. Lewis to me, and 
very ingenuously did enquire whether I ever did look into 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 299 


the business of the Chest? at Chatham; and after my readi- 
ness to be informed did appear to him, he did produce a 
paper, wherein he stated the government of the Chest to 
me; and upon the whole did tell me how it hath ever been 
abused, and to this day is; and what a meritorious act it 
would be to look after it; which I am resolved to do, if God 
bless me; and do thank him very much for it. 

3d. Dined with the officers of the Ordnance; where Sir 
W. Compton,” Mr. O’Neal,® and other great persons were. 
After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to 
discharge seven times; the best of all devices that ever I 
saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble; for it is much 
approved of, and many thereof made. 

4th. Up by five o’clock, and after my journall put in 
order, to my office about my business, which I am resolved 
to follow. Comes Mr. Cooper, mate of the Royall Charles, 
of whom I intend to learn mathematiques, and do begin 
with him to-day, he being a very able man, and no great 
matter, I suppose, will content him. After an houre’s 
being with him at arithmetique, my first attempt being 
to learn the multiplication-table; then we parted till to- 
morrow. 

5th. At noon, had Sir W. Pen, who I hate with all my 
heart, for his base treacherous tricks, but yet I think it not 


1See Pepys’s own account of the institution of the Chest, Noy. 13, 
1662, post. 


See May 6, 1660, and note. 


°The best account of this person is given in his monumental inscrip- 
tion, in Boughton-Malherbe Church:—‘ Here lies the Body of Mr. 
Daniel O’Neale, who descended from that great, honourable, and antient 
family of the O’Neales, in Ireland, to whom he added new lustre by his 
own merit, being rewarded for his courage and loyalty in the civil wars, 
under King Charles the First and Charles the Second, wt! the offices of 
Postmaster General of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Master of the 
Powder, and Groome of His Majtyes Bedchamber. He was married to 
the right honourable Katherine Countesse of Chesterfield, who erected 
him this monument, as one of the last markes of her kindnesse, to 
show her affection longer than her weak breath would serve to express 
it. He died a. pv. 1663, aged 60.” In the Letters of Philip, Second 
Earl of Chesterfield, p. 6, it is stated that he died on the 9th of April, 
1667; but the date of the year should be 1663. The “ Great O’Neale,” 
whose death Pepys records as having occurred on the 24th October, 
1664, many months later, could not be the same person, if the dates 
are correct. 


$00 DIARY OF [9th July, 


policy to declare it yet, and his son William, to my house to 
dinner, where was also Mr. Creed, and my cousin Harry 
Alcocke. I having some venison given me a day or two ago, 
and so I had a shoulder roasted, another baked, and the 
umbles baked in a pie, and all very well done. We were 
merry as I could be in that company. 

6th. (Lord’s day.) Settled my accounts with my wife for 
housekeeping, and do see that my kitchen, besides wine, 
fire, candle, sope, and many other things, comes to about 
30s. a week, or a little over. To church, where Mr. Mills 
made a lazy sermon. ‘To supper with my Lady [Sandwich]; 
who tells me, with much trouble, that my Lady Castlemaine 
is still as great with the King, and that the King comes as 
often to her as ever he did. Jack Cole, my old friend, 
found me out at the Wardrobe; and among other things, 
he told me that certainly most of the chief ministers 
of London would fling up their livings; and that, soon 
or late, the issue thereof would be sad to the King and 
Court. 

“th. Comes Mr. Cooper: so he and I to our mathe- 
matiques. 

8th. To the Wardrobe; where all alone with my Lord 
above an hour; and he do seem still to have his old con- 
fidence in me; and tells me, to boot, that Mr. Coventry hath 
spoke of me to him to great advantage; wherein I am much 
pleased. By and by comes in Mr. Coventry to visit my 
Lord; and so my Lord and he and I walked together in the 
great chamber a good while; and I found him a most in- 
genuous man and good company. 

9th. Up by four o’clock, and at my multiplicacion-table 
hard, which is all the trouble I meet with at all in my arith- 
metique. Sir W. Pen come to my office to take his leave of 
me, and, desiring a turn in the garden, did commit the care 
of his building to me,’ and offered all his services to me in 
all matters of mine. I did, God forgive me! promise him 
all my service and love, though the rogue knows he deserves 
none from me, nor do I intend to show him any; but as he 
dissembles with me, so must I with him. Come Mr. Mills, 
the minister, to see me, which he hath rarely done to me, 
though every day almost to others of us; but he is a cunning 

They had been allowed to raise their houses. 


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fellow, and knows where the good victuals is, and the good 
drink, at Sir W. Batten’s. However, I used him civilly, 
though I love him as I do the rest of his coat. 

11th. Up by four o’clock, and hard at my multiplicacion- 
table, which I am now almost master of. To Deptford first: 
then to Woolwich, and viewed well all the houses and stores 
there, which lie in very great confusion, for want of store- 
houses. So by water back again, about five in the afternoon, 
to White Hall, and so to St. James’s; and at Mr. Coventry’s 
chamber, which is very neat and fine, we had a pretty neat 
dinner. 

12th. Put things in order to be laid up, against my work- 
men come on Monday, to take down the top of my house. 
At night with Cooper at arithmetique. 

13th. (Lord’s day.) To Deptford, on purpose to sign and 
seal a couple of warrants, as justice of peace in Kent, against 
one Annis, who is to be tried next Tuesday, at Maidstone 
Assizes, for stealing some lead out of Woolwich Yard. 

14th. Dr. T. Pepys come to me to dinner, where by chance 
comes Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, and then Mr. Battersby, 
the minister, and then Mr. Dun, and it happened that I 
had a haunch of venison boiled, and so they were very well- 
come and merry; but my simple Dr. do talk so like a fool, 
that I am weary of him. This night I found the pageant in 
Cornhill taken downe, which was pretty strange. 

15th. About bed-time, it fell a-raining, and the house 
being all open at top, it vexed me, but there was no help 
for it. 

16th. In the morning, I found all my ceilings spoiled with 
rain last night, so that I fear they must be all new whited 
when the work is done. Mr. Moore to me, drawing up a 
fair state of all my Lord’s accounts, which being settled, he 
went away; at noon, to my Lord’s with it, but found him at 
dinner, and some great company with him—Mr. Edward 
Montagu and his brother, and Mr. Coventry, and after dinner 
went out with them; and so I lost my labour, but dined with 
Mr. Moore and the people below, who, after dinner, fell to 
talk of Portugall rings, and Captain Ferrers offered five or 
six to sell, and I seeming to like a ring made of a coco-nutt, 
with a stone done in it, he did offer and would give it me. 
This day I was told that my Lady Castlemaine being quite 


302 DIARY OF [22d July, 


fallen out with her husband, did yesterday go away from him, 
with all her plate, jewels, and other best things; and is gone 
to Richmond to a brother of her’s; which, I am apt to think, 
was a design to get out of town, that the King might come 
at her the better. 

17th. To my office, and by and by to our sitting; where 
much business. Mr. Coventry took his leave, being to go 
with the Duke over for the Queen-Mother. 

18th. It comes into my head to have my dining-[room] 
wainscoated, which will be very pretty. Comes Cooper for 
my mathematiques, but, in good earnest, my head is so 
full of business, that I cannot understand it as otherwise 
I should do. 

19th. In the afternoon I went upon the river; it raining 
hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, 
while the King come by in his barge, going down to- 
wards the Downes to meet the Queen: the Duke being 
gone yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem 
of a king, that he should not be able to command the 
rain. 

21st. Up early. I did take boat and down to Greenwich, 
to Captain Cocke’s, who hath a most pleasant seat, and 
neat. Here I drank wine, and eat some fruit off the trees; 
and he showed a great rarity, which was, two or three of a 
great number of silver dishes and plates, which he bought 
of an embassador that did lack money, in the edges and 
basins of which was placed silver and gold medalls very 
ancient. ‘To Woolwich to the Rope-yard; and there looked 
over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great sur- 
vey of seeing the working and experiments of the strength 
and the charge in the dressing of every sort; and I do think 
have brought it to so great a certainty, as I have done the 
King some service in it: and do purpose to get it ready 
against the Duke’s coming to town to present to him. I 
see it is impossible for the King to have things done as 
cheap as other men. 

22d. I had letters from the Downes from Mr. Coventry; 
who tells me of the foul weather they had last Sunday, that 
drove them back from near Boulogne, whither they were 
going for the Queen, back again to the Downes, with the 
loss of their cables, sayles, and masts; but are all safe, only 


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my Lord Sandwich, who went before with the yacht: they 
know not what is become of him, which do trouble me 
much; but I hope he got ashore before the storm begun; 
which God grant! 

23d. A little vexed that my brother Tom, by his neglect, 
do fail to get a coach for my wife and maid this week, by 
which she will not be at Brampton feast, to meet my Lady 
at my father’s. Much disturbed, by reason of the talk up 
and down the town, that my Lord Sandwich is lost; but I 
trust in God the contrary. 

24th. I hear, to my great content, that my Lord Sandwich 
is safe landed in France. 

25th. Reading Mr. Holland’s’ discourse of the Navy, lent 
me by Mr. Turner, and am much pleased with them—they 
hitting the very diseases of the Navy, which we are troubled 
with now-a-days. 

26th. I had a letter from Mr. Creed, who hath escaped 
narrowly in the King’s yacht, and got safe to the Downes 
after the late storm, and he says that the King do tell him, 
that he is sure my Lord is landed at Callis safe, of which 
being glad, I sent news thereof to my Lord Crewe, and by 
the post to my Lady in the country. This afternoon I went 
to Westminster; and there hear that the King and Queen 
intend to come to White Hall from Hampton Court next 
week, for all winter. Thence to Mrs. Sarah, and there looked 
over my Lord’s lodgings, which are very prettv; and White 
Hall Garden and the Bowling-ally, where lords and ladies 
are now at bowles, in brave condition. Mrs. Sarah told me 
how the falling out between my Lady Castlemaine and her 
Lord was about christening of the child’ lately, which he 
would have, and had done by a priest; and, some days 
after, she had it again christened by a minister; the King, 


and Lord of Oxford,’ and Duchess of Suffolk* being wit- 


1 John Holland, whose work is in the British Museum. 


?The first son whom Lady Castlemaine bore to Charles II. was. 
Charles Fitzroy, born in June, 1662, and afterwards created Duke of 
Southampton. 


* Aubrey de Vere, twentieth and last Earl of Oxford of that ancient 
family. Ob. 1702-3, s. p. 

“There was no Duchess of Suffolk at this time; the lady meant must 
have been Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, widow of 


304 DIARY OF [29th July, 


nesses: and christened with a proviso, that it had not al- 
ready been christened. Since that, she left her Lord, carry- 
ing away everything in the house; so much as every dish, 
and cloth, and servant, but the porter. He is gone dis- 
contented into France, they say, to enter a monastery; and 
now she is coming back again to her house in King Streete. 
But I hear that the Queen did prick her out of the list 
presented Her by the King; desiring that She might have 
that favour done Her, or that he would send Her from 
whence She come: and that the King was angry, and the 
Queen discontented a whole day and night upon it; but 
that the King hath promised to have nothing to do with her 
hereafter. But I cannot believe that the King can fling 
her off so, he loving her too well: and so I writ this night 
to my Lady to be my opinion; she calling her my lady, and 
the lady I admire. Here I find that my Lord hath lost the 
garden to his lodgings, and that it is turning into a tennis- 
court. 

27th. (Lord’s day.) I to walk in the Parke, which is 
now every day more and more pleasant, by the new works 
upon it. 

28th. Up early, and by six o’clock, after my wife was 
ready, I walked with her to the George at Holborne Con- 
duit, where the coach stood to carry her and her maid 
to Bugden; so I took a troubled though willing good bye, be- 
cause of the sad condition of my house, to have a family in 
it. Walked to the water-side, and there took boat for the 
Tower; hearing that the Queen-Mother is come this morn- 
ing already as high as Woolwich; and that my Lord Sand- 
wich was with her; at which my heart was glad. 

29th. Early up, and brought all my money, which is near 
3001., out of my house, into this chamber; and so to the 
office, and there we sat all the morning, Sir George Carteret 
and Mr. Coventry being-come from sea. 


Richard Wenman, eldest son of Philip, third Viscount Wenman, an 
Irish peer, and second wife of James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk. 
She was Mistress of the Robes to the Queen, who might well feel 
annoyed at her own servant being selected for the office of sponsor to 
the King’s base-born son. Lady Castlemaine was niece to Lady Suffolk, 
‘who perhaps had been her godmother, as they both bore the same 
christian name. 


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30th. By water to White Hall, and there waited upon 
Lord Sandwich; and joyed him at his lodgings of his safe 
coming home after all his danger, which he confesses to be 
very great. And his people do tell me how bravely my Lord 
did carry himself, while my Lord Crofts’ did cry; and I 
perceive all the town talk how poorly he carried himself. 
But the best was of one Mr. Rawlins,” a courtier that was 
with my Lord; and in the greatest danger cried, *“* My Lord, 
I won’t give you three-pence for your place now.” But 
all ends in the honour of the pleasure-boats; which, had 
they not been very good boats, could never have endured 
the sea as they did. To Woolwich, expecting to find 
Sir W. Batten there upon his survey, but he is not come, 
and so we got a dish of steaks at the White Hart, while 
his clarkes and others were feasting of it in the best room of 
the house, and after dinner playing at shuffle-board. God 
help the King! What surveys shall be taken after this manner! 

31st. At noon, Mr. Coventry and I by his coach to the 
Exchange together; and in Lombard Streete met Captain 
Browne of the Rosebush; at which he was cruel angry; and 
did threaten to go to-day to the Duke at Hampton Court, 
and get him turned out because he was not sailed. 

August 2d. Up early, and got me ready in my riding 
clothes, and took boat with Will, and down to Greenwich, 
where, Captain Cocke not being at home, I was vexed, and 
went to walk in the Park till he come thither to me: and 
Will, forgetting to bring my boots in the boat, did also vex 
me: for I was forced to send the boat back againe for 
them. I to Captain Cocke’s along with him to dinner, where 
I find his lady still pretty, but not so good-humoured as 
I thought she was. We had a plain good dinner, and 
I see they do live very snugly. I eat among other fruit 
much mulberrys, a thing I have not eat of these many 
years, since I used to be at Ashted,* at my cozen Pepys’s. 
After dinner, we to boate, and had a pleasant passage down 


1 William Crofts, created Baron Crofts, of Saxham, in Suffolk, 1658, 
and died s. p. 1677. 

? Giles Rawlings occurs in an old household book of James Duke of 
York at Audley End, as Gentleman of the Privy Purse to his Royal 
Highness, with a salary of 400/, per annum. See 19th August, post. 

SA village near Epsom. 


VOL. I. x 


306 DIARY OF [3d August, 


to Gravesend, but it was nine o’clock before we got thither, 
so that we were in great doubt whether to stay there or no, 
and the rather because I was afraid to ride because of my 
paine; but at the Swan, finding Mr. Henson and Lieu- 
tenant Carteret of the Foresight come to meet me, I bor- 
rowed Mr. Thompson’s horse; and he took another, and so 
we rode to Rochester in the dark, and there to our barge to 
the Hill-house, where we soon went to-bed—before we 
slept, I telling upon discourse with Captain Cocke the 
manner of my being cut of the stone, which pleased him 
much. So to sleep. 

3d. (Lord’s day.) Up early, and with Captain Cocke to 
the dock-yard, a fine walk and fine weather. Commissioner 
Pett come to us, and took us to his house, and showed us 
his garden and fine things, and did give us a fine breakfast 
of bread and butter, and sweetmeats and other things with 
great choice, and strong drinks, with which I could not 
avoyde making my head ake, though I drank but little. By 
and by to church, by coach, with the Commissioner, and had 
a dull sermon. A full church, and some pretty women in it: 
among others, Beck Allen, who was a bride-mayde to a new 
married couple, that come to church to-day, and which was 
pretty strange, sat in a pew hung with mourning for a 
mother of the bride’s, which methinks should have been 
taken down. After dinner, the Commissioner and I to his 
house, and had syllabub, and saw his closet, which come 
short of what I expected, but there was fine modells of ships 
in it indeed, whose worth I could not judge of. Amongst 
other things, Pett told me how despicable a thing it is to be 
a hangman in Poland, although it be a place of credit. And 
that, in his time, there was some repairs to be made of the 
gallows there, which was very fine, of stone; but nobody 
could be got to mend it, till the Burgo-master, or Mayor of 
the town, with all the companies of those trades which were 
necessary to be used about those repairs, did go in their 
habits with flags, in solemn procession to the place, and 
there the Burgo-master did give the first blow with the 
hammer upon the wooden work; and the rest of the Masters 
of the Companies upon the works belonging to their trades; 
that so workmen might not be ashamed to be employed upon 
doing of the gallows’ works. 


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4th. Up by four o’clock and to Upnor Castle, and there 
went up to the top, where there is a fine prospect, but of 
very small force. So to Rochester and Gravesend. Very 
dark before we got thither to the Swan; and there, meeting 
with Doncaster, an old waterman of mine above bridge, we 
eat a short supper, being very merry with the drolling, 
drunken coachman that brought us, and so took water. It 
being very dark, and the wind rising, and our waterman 
unacquainted with this part of the river, so that we were 
presently cast upon the Essex-shoare, but got off again, and 
so, as well as we could, went on, but I in such fear that I 
could not sleep till we come to Erith, and there it begun to 
be calme, and the stars to shine, and so I began to take 
heart again, and the rest too; and so made shift to slumber 
a little. Above Woolwich we lost our way, and went back 
to Blackwall, and up and down, being guided by nothing 
but the barking of a dog, which we had observed in passing 
by Blackwall. 

5th. Got right again with much ado, after two or three 
circles, and so on, and at Greenwich set in Captain Cocke; 
and I set forward, hailing to all the King’s ships at Dept- 
ford, but could not wake any man: so that we could have 
done what we would with their ships. At last waked one 
man, but it was a merchant ship, the Royall Catharine: 
so to the Tower-docke and home, where the girle sat up for 
me. It was about three o’clock, and, putting Mr. Boddam 
out of my bed, went to bed, and lay till nine o’clock. 
Dined alone at home, and was glad my house is begun 
tiling. 

6th. By water to White Hall; and so to St. James’s; 
but there found Mr. Coventry gone to Hampton Court. So 
to my Lord’s; and he is also gone: this being a great day 
at the Council, about some business before the King. Here, 
Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, told me how Mr. Edward 
Montagu hath lately had a duell with Mr. Cholmely,* that is 


1Hugh Cholmeley, afterwards the third baronet of that name; he 
was the second son of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, of Whitby (governor of 
Scarborough for Charles I.) whose autobiography has been printed. 
This Hugh succeeded his nephew of the same name, who died a minor 
in June, 1665, after which date Peyps speaks of him by his title. In 
February, 1666, he married Lady Anne Compton, eldest daughter of 


x 2 


308 DIARY OF [8th August, 


first gentleman-usher to the Queen, and was a messenger to 
her from the King of Portugall, and is a fine gentleman; 
but had received many affronts from Mr. Montagu, and some 
unkindness from my Lord, upon his score, for which I am 
sorry. He proved too hard for Montagu, and drove him so 
far backward that he fell into a ditch, and dropt his sword, 
but with honour would take no advantage over him; but 
did give him his life: and, the world says, Mr. Montagu did 
carry himself very poorly in the business, and hath lost his 
honour for ever with all people in it, of which I am very 
glad, in hopes that it will humble him. I hear, also, that 
he hath sent to my lady to borrow 4001., giving his brother 
Harvey’s’ security for it, and that my Lord will lend it him, 
for which I am sorry. This afternoon Mr. Waith was with 
me, and did tell me much concerning the Chest, which I am 
resolved to look into; and I perceive he is sensible of Sir 


W. Batten’s carriage; and is pleased to see any thing work 


against him. 

7th. This morning, I got unexpectedly the Reserve for 
Mr. Cooper to be maister of, which was only by taking an 
opportune time to mention [it], which is one good effect of 
my being constant at the office, that nothing passes without 
me; and I have the choice of my own time to propose any- 
thing I would have. 

8th. At five, by water to Woolwich, there to see the 
manner of tarring, and the several proceedings of making of 
cordage, and other things relating to that sort of works, 
much to my satisfaction. Dined with Mr. Falconer; thence 
we walked, talking all the way to Greenwich, and I do find 
excellent discourse from him. Among other things, his rule 
of suspecting every man that proposes any thing to him to 
be a knave; or, at least, to have some ends of his own in it. 


Being led thereto by the story of Sir John Millicent,’ that 


Spencer, Earl of Northampton. He was afterwards, for some years, 
governor of Tangier, of which he published an account. He died 9th 
January, 1688. He was descended from a younger branch of that great 
family of Egertons and Cholmondeleys, of all of whom Sir Philip M. 
Grey Egerton is the head. 


*Sir Daniel Harvey is the person alluded to. 


*He is described in the Baronetages as of Barham, in Cambridge- 
shire. 


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would have had a patent from King James for every man to 
have had leave to have given him a shilling; and that he 
might take it of every man that had a mind to give it; and 
being assured that that was a fair thing, but what needed a 
patent for it, and what he would do to them that would not 
give him, he answered, he would not force them; but that 
they should come to the Council of State, to give a reason 
why they would not. Another rule is a proverb that he hath 
been taught, which is, that a man that cannot sit still in his 
chamber, the reason of which I did not understand, and he 
that cannot say no (that is, that is of so good a nature that 
he cannot deny any thing, or cross another in doing any 
thing), is not fit for business. The last of which is a very 
great fault of mine, which I must amend in. Thence by 
boat; being hot, he [Mr. Falconer] put the skirt of his 
cloak about me; and, it being rough, he told me the passage 
of a Frenchman through London Bridge,* where, when he 
saw the great fall, he begun to cross himself, and say his 
prayers in the greatest fear in the world; and, soon as he 
was over, he swore, “ Morbleu! c’est le plus grand plaisir 
du monde,” being the most like a French humour in the 
world. To Deptford, and there surprised the Yard, and 
called them to a muster, and discovered many abuses. 

9th. Mr. Coventry and I sat alone at the office all the 
morning upon business. And so to dinner to Trinity House, 
and thence by his coach towards White Hall; but there 
being a stop at the Savoy,” we light and took water, and my 
Lord Sandwich being out of town, we parted there. Writing 
a letter to my brother Jchn to dissuade him from being 
Moderator of his year, which I hear is proffered him, of 


1 When the first editions of this Diary were printed no note was re- 
quired here. Before the erection of the present London Bridge, the 
fall of water at the ebb tide was great, and to pass at that time was 
called “Shooting the bridge.’ It was very hazardous for small boats. 
The ancient mode, even in Henry VIII.’s time, of going to the Tower 
and Greenwich, was to land at the Three Cranes, in Upper Thames 
Street, suffer the barges to shoot the bridge, and to enter them again at 
Billingsgate. See Cavendish’s Wolsey, p. 40, ed. 1852; Life of the 
Duke of Somerset in Fox’s Acts, vol. vi. p. 293; Life of Bp. Hall, in 
Wordsworth’s Eccl. Biog., iv., 318, ed. 1853. 

?The Savoy Palace in the Strand, a considerable part of which ex- 
isted so lately as 1816. 


310 DIARY OF [11th August, 


which I am very glad. Comes Cooper, and he and I by 
candle-light at my modell, being willing to learn as much of 
him as possible before he goes. 

10th. (Lord’s day.) I walked to St. Dunstan’s, the church 
being now finished; and here I heard Dr. Bates, who made 
a most eloquent sermon; and I am sorry I have hitherto 
had so low an opinion of the man, for I have not heard a 
neater sermon a great while, and more to my content. So 
to Tom’s, where Dr. Fairebrother, newly come from Cam- 
bridge, met me, and Dr. Thomas Pepys. I framed myself 
as pleasant as I could, but my mind was another way. My 
uncle Fenner told me the new service-booke,’ which is now 
lately come forth, was laid upon their deske at St. Sepulchre’s 
for Mr. George’ to read; but he laid it aside, and would not 
meddle with it: and I perceive the Presbyters do all prepare 
to give over all against Bartholomewtide. Mr. Herring, 
being lately turned out at St. Bride’s, did read the psalme to 
the people while they sung at Dr. Bates’s, which methought 
is a strange turn.* After dinner, to St. Bride’s, and there 
heard one Carpenter, an old man, who, they say, hath been 
a Jesuite priest, and is come over to us; but he preached 
very well. Mr. Calamy hath taken his farewell this day of 
his people, and others will do so the next Sunday. Mr. 
Turner,* the draper, I hear, is knighted, made Alderman, 
and pricked for Sheriffe, with Sir Thomas Bluddel,’ for the 
next year, by the King, and so are called, with great honour, 
the King’s Sheriffes. 

11th. Deane Fuller tells me that his niece, that sings 
so well, whom I have longed to see, is married to one Mr. 
Boys, a wholesayle man at the Three Crownes, in Cheap- 


1The Common Prayer Book now in use. One of the sealed books, 
appointed by the Act of Uniformity, is still preserved in the Tower of 
London. 

2 George ought to be Thomas Gouge, an eminent Presbyterian minister, 
who had the church of St. Sepulchre during the Commonwealth, and 
abandoned it on the Act of Uniformity coming into force. There is 
an account of him in Calamy’s Lives of the Ejected Ministers, 8vo., Wale 

8A practice still obtains amongst the Dissenters of reading the 
psalm or hymn to be sung, two lines at a time. 


4Sir William Turner, Lord Mayor of London, 1669. 


8A mistake for Bludworth, who had been Colonel of the Orange 
Regiment of the trained bands, and Lord Mayor in 1666. 


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side. Cooper come and read his last lecture to me, upon 
my modell, and so bid me good bye, he being to go to- 
morrow to Chatham, to take charge of the ship I have got 
him. 

13th. Up early, and to my office. By and by we met on 
purpose to enquire into the business of flag-makers, where 
I am the person that do chiefly manage the business against 
them on the king’s part; and I do find it the greatest cheat 
that I have yet found; they having eightpence per yard 
allowed them by pretence of a contract, where no such thing 
appears; and it is threepence more than was formerly paid, 
and than I now offer the Board to have them done. To 
Lambeth; and there saw the little pleasure-boat in building 
by the King, my Lord Brouncker,’ and the Virtuosoes of 
the town, according to new lines, which Mr. Pett cries up 
mightily ; but how it will prove we shall soon see. 

14th. Commissioner Pett and I being invited, went by 
Sir John Winter’s coach, sent for us, to the Mitre, in Fen- 
church Street, to a venison-pasty; where I found him a 
very worthy man; and good discourse, most of which was 
concerning the Forest of Deane, and the timber there, 
and iron-workes with their great antiquity, and the vast 
heaps of cinders which they find, and are now of great value, 
being necessary for the making of iron at this day; and 
without which they cannot work; with the age of many 
trees there left, at a great fall in Edward the Third’s time, 
by the name of forbid-trees, which at this day are called 
vorbid trees. 

15th. Up very early, and up about seeing how my work 
proceeds, and am pretty well pleased therewith; especially 
my wife’s closet will be very pretty. At noon to the 
Change, and there hear of some Quakers that are seized on, 
that would have blown up the prison in Southwarke, where 
they are put: so to the Swan, in Old Fish Streete, where 


1 William Brouncker, second Lord Brouncker, Viscount of Castle 
Lyons, in Ireland; created M.D., in 1642, at Oxford; Keeper of the 
Great Seal to the Queen, a Commissioner of the Admiralty, and Master 
of St. Catherine’s Hospital. He was a man of considerable talents, 
and the first President of the Royal Society. Ob. 1684, aged 64. There 
is a fine portrait of him, by Lely, at Lord Lyttleton’s, at Hagley. See 
post, 24th March, 1667. 


312 DIARY OF : [17th August, 


Mr. Bridgen and his father-in-law, Blackbury, of whom we 
had bought timber in the office, but have not dealt well 
with us, did make me a fine dinner only to myself; and 
after dinner comes in a jugleur, which shewed us very pretty 
tricks. I seemed very pleasant, but am no friend to the 
man’s dealings with us in the office. I went to Paul’s 
Church Yard, to my bookseller’s [Kirton’s]; and there I 
hear that next Sunday will be the last of a great many 
Presbyterian ministers in town, who, I hear, will give up 
all. I pray God the issue may be good, for the discontent 
is great. My mind well pleased with a letter that I found 
at home from Mr. Coventry, expressing his satisfaction in a 
letter I writ last night, and sent him this morning to be 
corrected by him, in order to its sending down to all the 
Yards as a charge to them. 

17th. (Lord’s day.) This being the last Sunday that the 
Presbyterians are to preach, unless they read the new Com- 
mon Prayer, and renounce the Covenant, I had a mind to 
hear Dr. Bates’s farewell sermon; and walked to St. 
Dunstan’s, where, it not being seven o’clock yet, the 
doors were not open; and so I walked an hour in Temple- 
gardens, reading my vows, which it is a great content to me 
to see how I am a changed man in all respects for the better, 
since I took them, which the God of Heaven continue to 
me, and make me thankful for. At eight o’clock I went, 
and crowded in at a back door among others, the church 
being half-full almost before any doors were open publicly, 
which is the first time that I have done so these many years; 
and so got into the gallery, beside the pulpit, and heard 
very well. His text was, “Now the God of Peace sie 
the last Hebrews, and the 20th verse; he making a very 
good sermon, and very little reflections in it to any thing of 
the times. I was very well pleased with the sight of a fine 
lady that I have often seen walk in Gray’s Inn Walks. To 
Madam Turner’s, and dined with her. She had heard Parson 
Herring take his leave; though he, by reading so much of 
the Common Prayer as he did, hath cast himself out of the 
good opinion of both sides. After dinner, to St. Dunstan’s 
again; and the church quite crowded before I come, which 
was just at one o’clock; but I got into the gallery again, 
but stood in a crowd. Dr. Bates pursued his text again 


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very well; and only at the conclusion told us, after this 
manner: “I do believe that many of you do expect that I 
should say something to you in reference to the time, this 
being the last time that possibly I may appear here. You 
know it is not my manner to speak anything in the pulpit 
that is extraneous to my text and business: yet this I shall 
say, that it is not my opinion, fashion, or humour, that keeps 
me from complying with what is required of us; but some- 
thing, after much prayer, discourse, and study, yet remains 
unsatisfied, and commands me herein. Wherefore, if it is 
my unhappinesse not to receive such an illuminacion as 
should direct me to do otherwise, I know no reason why 
men should not pardon me in this world, as I am confident 
God will pardon me for it in the next.” And so he con- 
cluded. Parson Herring read a psalme and chapters before 
sermon; and one was the chapter in the Acts, where the 
story of Ananias and Sapphira is. And after he had done, 
says he, “ This is just the case of England at present. God he 
bids us to preach, and men bid us not to preach; and if we 
do, we are to be imprisoned and further punished. All that 
I can say to it is, that I beg your prayers and the prayers of 
all good Christians for us.” This was all the exposition he 
made of the chapter in these very words, and no more. I was 
much pleased with Bates’s manner of bringing in the Lord’s 
Prayer after his owne; thus, “ In whose comprehensive words 
we sum up all our imperfect desires, saying, ‘ Our Father,’ ” 
&c.* I hear most of the Presbyters took their leaves to-day, 
and that the City is much dissatisfied with it. I pray God 
keep peace among us, and make the Bishops careful of bring- 
ing in men in their rooms, or else all will fly a-pieces; for 
bad ones will not go down with the City. 

18th. About seven o’clock, took horse, and rode to Bowe, 
and there staid at the King’s Head, and eat a breakfast of 
eggs, till Mr. Dean,’ of Woolwich, and I rid into Waltham 
Forest, and there we saw many trees of the King’s a- 
hewing; and he showed me the whole mystery of off- 
square ;* wherein the King is abused in the timber that 


1 Still often used, 

Anthony Deane, afterwards knighted, and M.P. for Harwich; a 
Commissioner of the Navy, 1672. 

’ Off-square is evidently a mistake, in the shorthand M.S., for half- 


314 DIARY OF [18th August, 


he buys, which I shall with much pleasure be able to 
correct. We rode to Illford, and there, while dinner was 
getting ready, he and I practised measuring of the tables 


square, which is explained by the following extract from W. Leybourn’s 
Complete Surveyor, 3rd edit., London, 1674, folio:— 

“ Before I proceed, I must needs detect one grand and too common 
an error; for most artificers, when they meet with squared timber, 
whose breadth and depth are unequal, they usually add the breadth 
and depth together, and take the half for a mean square, and so proceed. 
This, indeed, though it be always an error, yet it is not so great when 
the difference of the breadth and depth is not much; but, if the differ- 
ence be great, the error is very obnoxious either to buyer or seller. I 
will instance in one example:— 

Let a piece of timber be 2 foot 24 parts broad, and 1 foot 30 parts 
deep, and 26 foot long: how many foot are contained therein? 

First for the true way,— 

1. As 1 is to 2-24 parts, the breadth, so is 1:30 parts, the depth, to 
3:92 parts, the content at the end. 

2. As 1 is to 2-92, so is 26, the length, to 56:07, the content, which is 
56 foot and about an inch. 

Now for the customary false way,— 


The\ breadth tof sthe "piece vis; jaciesiscrete se cllete 2 -QA 
The depth WthereoL eas Mielec ieystereleyehersickelere eaten 1-30 
A O17? (SUM HHS esse: <yo'es-ch/a, ous elaroierais saree 3°54 
The shallé [sume 1S) +< 21.) vs \.:0) 1 <taores elerelaietetene Bi dle ti 


And this 1:77 parts they take for the true square, which is egregiously 
false; for now come to the line of numbers, and say— 

1. As 1 is to 1-77 parts, so is 1-77 parts to 3-13 parts. 

2. As 1 is to 3:13 parts, so is 26, the length, to 81-45 parts, that is 
to 81 foot and almost half a foot, whereas, by the true way, it contains 
but 56 foot and :07 parts. ‘The difference in this piece being 25 foot 
and above one-third part of a foot, which is above half a load of tim- 
ber, and timber being at 50s. or 3/. per load, here is 25s. or 30s. lost by 
the buyer, and gained by the seller; a considerable fallacy to buy one 
load, and pay for above a load and a half. But, if people will be de- 
ceived, let them be deceived.” 

It is to be hoped that Pepys carried out his intention of putting an 
end to the nefarious practice of cheating the King in the purchase of 
timber. He speaks of it in good faith, and his term, mystery, simply 
implies his ignorance of the art of measuring. With regard to Sir 
William Warren, the case was probably different: he made large pre- 
sents to Pepys, and confesses that he perjured himself before the Com- 
mittee of the House of Commons, in concealing the fact. Frauds in 
the supply of timber for the use of the Navy have been common sub- 
jects of complaint at a much later period. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 315 


and other things, till I did understand measuring of timber 
and board very well. By and by, being sent for, comes 
Mr. Cooper, our officer in the Forest, and did give me an 
account of things there, and how the country is backward 
to come in with their carts. While I am here, Sir William 
Batten passed by in his coach, homewards from Colchester, 
where he had been seeing his son-in-law Lemon, that lies 
a-dying, but I would take no notice of him, but let him 
go. By and by rode to Barking, and there saw the place 
where they ship this timber for Woolwich; and so Deane 
and I home again, and parted at Bowe, and I home just 
before a great showre of rain, as God would have it. I find 
Deane a pretty able man, and, I think, able to do the King 
service; but, I think, more out of envy to the rest of the 
officers of the yard, of whom he complains much, than 
true love, more than others, to the service. He would 
fain seem a modest man, and yet will commend his own 
work and skill, and vie with other persons, especially 
the Petts. 

19th. At the office; and Mr. Coventry did tell us of 
the duell between Mr. Jermyn,’ nephew to my Lord St. 
Albans, and Colonel Giles Rawlins,? the latter of whom 
is killed, and the first mortally wounded, as it is thought. 
They fought against Captain Thomas Howard,’ my Lord 


1Henry Jermyn, younger nephew of the Earl of St. Albans. He 
was created Baron Jermyn of Dover, 1685, and died in 1708, s. p.; his 
eldest brother, Thomas, became second Baron Jermyn of Bury St. 
Edmund’s, on the death of his uncle, the Earl of St. Albans, in 1683, 
and died unmarried in 1703. Thomas Jermyn was Governor of Jersey. 


7See July 30, 1662, ante. 


8“ 4ug. 18, 1662. Capt. Thomas Howard, the Earl of Carlisle’s 
brother, and the Lord Dillon’s son, a Colonel, met with Mr. Giles Raw- 
lings, privy purse to the D. of York, and Mr. Jermyn, the Earl of St. 
Alban’s nephew .. There had been a slight quarrel betwixt them, and 
as they, Rawlings and Jermyn, came from tennis, these two drew at 
them, and then Col. Dillon killed this Mr. Rawlings dead upon the 
spot. Mr. Jermyn was left for dead. This Captain Howard was un- 
fortunate since the return of his Majy, in killing a horse-courser man in 
St. Giles. Mr. Rawlings was much lamented; he lived in a very hand- 
some state, six horses in his coach, three footmen, &c. Oct. Capt. 
Thomas Howard, and Lord Dillon’s son, both of them fied about the 
killing of Mr. Giles Rawlings; but after a quarter of a year they came 
into England, and were acquitted by law.”—Rugge’s Diurnal. Captain 
Howard afterwards married the Duchess of Richmond. 


316 DIARY OF [20th August, 


Carlisle’s brother, and another unknown;* who, they say, 
had armor on that they could not be hurt, so that one of 
their swords went up to the hilt against it. They had 
horses ready, and are fled. But what is most strange, 
Howard sent one challenge before, but they could not 
meet till yesterday at the Old Pall Mall at St. James’s, 
and he would not to the last tell Jermyn what the quarrel 
was; nor do any body know.” The Court is much con- 
cerned in this fray, and I am glad of it; hoping that it 
will cause some good laws against it. After sitting, Sir 
G. Carteret did tell me how he had spoke of me to my 
Lord Chancellor: and that if my Lord Sandwich would 
ask my Lord Chancellor, he would know what he had said 
of me to him to my advantage. 

20th. To my Lord Sandwich, whom I found in bed. 
Among other talk, he do tell me that he hath put me into 
the commission with a great many great persons in the 
business of Tangier, which is a very great honour to me, 
and may be of good concernment to me. By and by comes 
in Mr. Coventry to us, whom my Lord tells that he has also 
put into the commission, and that I am there, of which he 
said he was glad; and did tell my Lord that I was indeed 
the life of this office, and much more to my commendation 
beyond measure. And that, whereas before he did bear me 
respect for his sake, so he do it now much more for my 
own; which is a great blessing to me: Sir G. Carteret 
having told me what he did yesterday concerning his speak- 
ing to my Lord Chancellor about me; so that on all hands, 


?Lord Dillon’s son, apparently Charles, eldest son of James, fourth 
Viscount Dillon. He had served abroad, and died, unmarried, before 
his father. It may have been from feelings caused by this duel that one 
of his younger brothers, Rupert, whilst Page of Honour to Charles II., 
“being from his address and figure considered an object of envy, was 
set upon, says the pedigree, by the other pages, and slain in the Palace 
Yard.”—Lodge, iv. 189. 


* Hamilton gives the following account of the duel, which arose from 
rivalry, between Howard and Jermyn about Lady Shrewsbury :—‘ Jer- 
myn prit pour second, Giles Rawlings, homme de bonne fortune, et 
gros joueur. Howard se servit de Dillon, adroit et brave, fort honnéte 
homme, et par malheur intime ami de Rawlings. Dans ce combat, la 
fortune ne fut point pour les favoris de amour. Le pauvre Rawlings 
y fut tué tout roide, et Jermyn, percé de trois coups d’épée, fut porté 
chez son oncle, avec fort peu de signes de vie.’—Mém. de Grammont. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 317 


by God’s blessing, I find myself a very rising man. By 
and by comes my Lord Peterborough in, with whom we 
talked a good while and he is going to-morrow towards 
Tangier again. I perceive there is yet good hopes of peace 
with Guyland,* which is of great concernment to Tangier. 
Meeting Mr. Townsend, he would needs take me to Fleet 
Street, to one Mr. Barwell, squire sadler to the King, and 
there we and several other Wardrobe-men dined. We had 
a venison pasty, and other good, plain and handsome dishes 
—the mistress of the House, a pretty well-carriaged woman, 
and a fine hand she hath; and her maid a pretty brown 
lass. 

21st. To Mr. Rawlinson’s, where my uncle Wight and 
my aunt, and some neighbour couples, were at a very good 
venison pasty. Hither come, after we were set down, a 
most pretty young lady, only her hands were not white nor 
handsome, which pleased me well, and I found her to be 
sister to Mrs. Anne Wight. We were good company, and 
had a very pretty dinner. 

22d. About three o’clock this morning, I waked with 
the noise of the rayne, having never in my life heard a 
more violent shower; and then the catt was lockt in the 
chamber, and kept a great mewing, and leapt upon the 
bed, which made me I could not sleep a great while. To 
Westminster Hall, and there I heard that old Mr. Hales? 
did lately die suddenly in an hour’s time. Here I met 
with Will Bowyer, and had a promise from him of a place 
to stand to-morrow at his house to see the show. Sent 
for Mr. Creed, and then to his lodging, at Clerke’s, the 
confectioner’s, where he did give me a little banquet, and 
I had liked to have begged a parrot for my wife, but he 
hath put me in a way to get a better from Steventon at 
Portsmouth. 

23d. Mr. Coventry and I did walk together a great while 
in the garden, where he did tell me his mind about Sir G. 
Carteret’s having so much the command of the money, 
which must be removed: and indeed it is the bane of all 
our business. He observed to me also how Sir W. Batten 


*A Moorish usurper, who had put himself at the head of an army 
for the purpose of attacking Tangier. 
? John Hales of Eton. 


318 DIARY OF [23d August, 


begins to struggle and to look after his business. I also put 
him upon getting an order from the Duke for our inquiries 
into the Chest, which he will see done. Mr. Creed and I 
walked down to the Tylt Yard, and so all along Thames 
Street, but could not get a boat: I offered eight shillings 
for a boat to attend me this afternoon, and they would not, 
it being the day of the Queen’s coming to town from Hamp- 
ton Court. So we fairly walked it to White Hall, and 
through my Lord’s lodgings we got into White Hall garden, 
and so to the Bowling-greene, and up to the top of the new 
Banqueting House there, over the Thames, which was a 
most pleasant place as any I could have got; and all the 
show consisted chiefly in the number of boats and barges; 
and two pageants, one of a King, and another of a Queen, 
with her Maydes of Honour sitting at her feet very prettily ; 
and they tell me the Queen is Sir Richard Ford’s daughter. 
Anon come the King and Queen in a barge, under a canopy, 
with 1000 barges and boats I know, for we could see no 
water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. And so 
they landed at White Hall Bridge, and the great guns on 
the other side went off. But that which pleased me best 
was, that my Lady Castlemaine stood over against us upon 
a piece of White Hall. But methought it was strange to 
see her Lord and her upon the same place walking up and 
down without taking notice one of another, only at first 
entry he put off his hat, and she made him a very civil 
salute, but afterwards took no notice one of another; but 
both of them now and then would take their child, which 
the nurse held in her armes, and dandle it. One thing more; 
there happened a scaffold below to fall, and we feared some 
hurt, but there was none, but she of all the great ladies 
only ran down among the common rabble to see what hurt 
was done, and did take care of a child that received some 
little hurt, which methought was so noble. Anon there 
come one there booted and spurred, that she talked long 
with; and by and by, she being in her haire, she put on his 
hat, which was but an ordinary one, to keep the wind off ; 
but it become her mightily, as every thing else do. I went 
away, not weary with looking on her, and to my Lord’s lodg- 
ings, where my brother Tom and Dr. Thomas Pepys were to 
speak with me: so I walked with them in the garden, and 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 319 


was very angry with them both for their going out of town 
without my knowledge; and they told me the _ business, 
which was to see a gentlewoman for a wife for Tom, of Mr. 
Cooke’s providing, worth 5001., of good education, her name 
Hobell, and lives near Banbury—demands 401. per annum 
joynter. ‘T’om likes her, and, they say, had a very good re- 
ception, and that Cooke hath been very serviceable therein, 
and that she is committed to old Mr. Young, of the Ward- 
robe’s, tuition. My Lord and I had half an hour’s private 
discourse about the discontents of the times, which we con- 
cluded would not come to any thing of difference, though 
the Presbyters would be glad enough of it; but we do not 
think religion will so soon cause another war. Then to his 
owne business. He asked my advice there, whether he 
should go on to purchase more land, and to borrow money 
to pay for it, which he is willing to do, because such a bar- 
gaine as that of Mr. Buggins’s of Stukely will not be every 
day to be had, and Brampton is now perfectly granted him 
by the King—I mean, the reversion of it, after the Queen’s 
death; and, in the mean time, he buys it of Sir Peter Ball 
his present right. ‘Then we fell to talk of Navy business; 
and he concludes, as I do, that he needs not put himself 
upon any more voyages abroad to spend money, unless a 
war comes; and that by keeping his family a while in the 
country, he shall be able to gather money. Here we broke 
off, and I bid him good night, and so, with much ado, the 
streets being, at nine o’clock at night, crammed with people 
going home to the city, for all the borders of the river 
had been full of people, as the King had come, to a 
miracle, got to the Palace Yard, and there took boat, and 
so to the Old Swan, and so walked home and to bed very 
weary. 

24th. (Lord’s day.) To church, where I all alone, and 
found Will Griffin and Thomas Hewett got into a pew next 
to our backs, where our mayds sit, but when I come, they 
went out, so forward some people are to outrun themselves. 
Here we had a lazy, dull sermon. My brother Tom come 
to me, talking about his late journey and his mistress; and, 
for what he tells me, it is like to do well. To church again, 
where Mr. Mills, making a sermon upon confession, he did 
endeavour to pull down auricular confession, but did set it 


320 DIARY OF [Bist August, 


up, by his bad arguments against it, and advising people 
to come to him to confess their sins, when they had any 
weight upon their consciences, as much as is possible, which 
did vex me to hear. Walked to my uncle Wight’s: here I 
staid supper, and much company there was; among others, 
Dr. Burnett,* Mr. Cole, the lawyer, Mr. Rawlinson, and 
Mr. Sutton. Among other things, they tell me that there 
hath been a disturbance in a church in Friday Street; a 
great many young people knotting together and crying out 
* Porridge! ’’? often and seditiously in the church, and they 
took the’ Common Prayer Book, they say, away; and, some 
say, did tear it; but it is a thing which appears to me very 
ominous. I pray God avert it. 

27th. Dined with Sir W. Batten. Among other stories, 
he told us of the Mayor of Bristoll’s reading a pass with 
the bottom upwards; and a barber that could not read, 
that flung a letter in the kennel, when one come to desire 
him to read the superscription, saying, “Do you think I 
stand here to read letters?” This day my hogshead of 
sherry I have sold to Sir W. Batten, and am glad of my 
money instead of my wine. 

31st. (Lord’s day.) News is brought me that Sir W. Pen 
is come. Made my monthly. accounts, and find myself 
worth in money about 6861. 19s. 244d., for which God be 
praised. I now saving money, and my expenses being very 
little. My wife is still in the country; my house all in dirt; 
but my work in a good forwardness, and will be much to 
my mind at last. ‘To Mr. Rawlinson’s, and there supped 
with him. Our discourse of the discontents that are abroad, 


1A physician, residing in Fenchurch Street, who died of the plague. 
See postea, August 25, 1665. 


2 Porridge was the nickname given by the Dissenters to the Book of 
Common Prayer. In the City Heiress, Sir Anthony says to Sir Timothy, 
“You came from church too.” Sir Timothy replies, “Ah! needs must 
when the devil drives. I go to save my bacon, as they say, once a 
month; and that, too, after the porridge is served up.”’—Quoted by 
Genest, in Hist. of the Stage, vol. i, p. 36. The meaning of this word 
is fully explained in a rare contemporary tract, called “A Vindication 
of the Book of Common Prayer against the contumelious slanders of 
the Fanatic Party, terming it Porridge.” An entract from this pam- 
phlet will be found in a note to Sir Walter Scott’s Woodstock, vol. 1. 
p- 22, ed, 1834, 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 321 


among and by reason of the Presbyters. Some were clapped 
up to-day, and strict watch is kept in the City by the train- 
bands, and abettors of a plot are taken. God preserve us! 
for all these things bode very ill. 

September Ist. With Sir W. Patten and Sir W. Pen by 
coach to St. James’s, this beirg the first day of our meeting 
there by the Duke’s orders; but when we come, we found 
him going out by coach with his Duchess, and he told us he 
was to go abroad with the Queen to-day, to Durdans, it 
seems, to dine with my Lord Barkeley* [of Barkeley |, where 
I have been very merry when I was a little boy; so we went 
and staid a little at Mr. Coventry’s chamber, and I to my 
Lord Sandwich’s, who is gone to wait upon the King and 
Queen to-day. 

3d. After dinner, we met and sold the Weymouth, Suc- 
cesse, and Fellowship hulkes, where pleasant to see how 
backward men are at first to bid; and yet, when the candle 
is going out, how they bawl, and dispute afterwards who 
bid the most first. And here I observed one man cun- 
ninger than the rest, that was sure to bid the last man, and 
to carry it; and, inquiring the reason, he told me that, just 
as the flame goes out, the smoke descends, which is a thing I 
never observed before, and by that he do know the instant 
when to bid last. Mr. Coventry told us how the Fanatiques 
and Presbyters, that did intend to rise about this time, 
did choose this day as the most auspicious to them in their 
endeavours against monarchy: it being fatal twice to the 
King, and the day of Oliver’s death.* But, blessed be God! 
all is likely to be quiet, I hope. Dr. Fairbrother tells me, 
what I heard confirmed since, that it was fully resolved 
by the King’s new Council that an Indulgence should be 
granted the Presbyters; but upon the Bishop of London’s® 
speech (who is now one of the most powerful men in Eng- 


1Tord Berkeley’s seat near Epsom. 

7Cromwell had considered the 3rd of September as the most for- 
tunate day of his life, on account of his victories at Dunbar and Wor- 
cester. It was also remarkable for the great storm that occurred at the 
time of his death; and as being the day on which the Fire of London, 
in 1666, burnt with the greatest fury. 

* Gilbert Sheldon. 

VOL. I. © 


322 DIARY OF [5th Sept. 


land with the King,) their minds were wholly turned. And 
it is said that my Lord Albemarle did oppose him most; 
but that I do believe is only an appearance. He told me 
also that most of the Presbyters now begin to wish they 
had complied, now they see that no Indulgence will be 
granted them, which they hoped for; and that the Bishep 
of London hath taken good care that places are supplied 
with very good and able men, which is the only thing that 
will keep all quiet. 

4th. At noon to the Trinity House, where we treated, 
very dearly, I believe, the officers of the Ordnance; where 
was Sir W. Compton and the Lieutenant of the Tower. We 
had much and good musique, which was my best entertain- 
ment. Sir William Compton I heard talk, with great plea- 
sure, of the difference between the fleet now and in Queen 
Elizabeth’s days; where, in ’88, she had but 36 sail, great 
and small, in the world; and ten rounds of powder was 
their allowance at that time against the Spaniard.* After 
Sir W. Compton, and Mr. Coventry, and some of the best 
of the rest were gone, I grew weary of staying with Sir 
Williams both, and the more for that my Lady Batten and 
her crew—at least half a score come into the room, and I 
believe we shall pay size for it; but ’tis very pleasant to see 
her in her haire under her hood, and how by little and little 
she would fain be a gallant; but, Lord! the company she 
keeps about her are like herself, that she may be known by 
them what she is. 

5th. By water to Woolwich: in my way saw the yacht 
lately built by our Virtuosoes (my Lord Brouncker and 
others, with the help of Commissioner Pett also,) set out 
from Greenwich with the little Dutch bezan, to try for 
mastery; and before they go to Woolwich, the Dutch beat 
them half-a-mile; and I hear this afternoon, that, in coming 
home, it got above three miles; which all our people are 
glad of. To Mr. Bland’s, the merchant, by invitation; where 
I found all the officers of the Customs, very grave fine gen- 
tlemen, and I am very glad to know them; viz.—Sir Job 


1See Bruce’s Reports, in 1798, on the measures adopted against 
the invasion of England in 1588, printed for the use of the Privy 
Council. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 323 


Harvy, Sir John Wolstenholme,’ Sir John Jacob,’ Sir Nicho- 
las Crisp, Sir John Harrison,’ and Sir John Shawe:* very 
good company. And among other discourse, some was of 
Sir Jerome Bowes, Embassador from Queen Elizabeth to 
the Emperor of Russia;° who, because some of the noblemen 
there would go up-stairs to the Emperor before him, he would 
not go up till the Emperor had ordered those two men to be 
dragged down-stairs, with their heads knocking upon every 
stair till they were killed. And when he was come up, they 
demanded his sword of him before he entered the room. He 
told them, if they would have his sword, they should have his 
boots too. And so caused his boots to be pulled off, and his 
night-gown and night-cap and slippers to be sent for; and 
made the Emperor stay till he could go in his night-dress, 
since he might not go as a soldier. ~And lastly, when the 
Emperor in contempt, to show his command of his sub- 
jects, did command one to leap from the window down, and 
broke his neck in the sight of our Embassador, he replied 
that his mistress did set more by, and did make better use 
of the necks of her subjects: but said that, to show what 
her subjects would do for her, he would, and did, fling down 
his gantlett before the Emperor; and challenged all the no- 
bility there to take it up, in defence of the Emperor against 
his Queen: for which, at this very day, the name of Sir 
Jerome Bowes is famous and honoured there. I this day 
heard that Mr. Martin Noel® is knighted by the King, 


1Sir John Wolstenholme; created a Baronet, 1664. An _ intimate 
friend of Lord Clarendon’s; and Collector outward for the Port of 
London. Ob. 1679. 

?Sir John Jacob, of Bromley, Middlesex; created a Baronet, 1664, 
for his loyalty and zeal for the Royal Family. His third wife was a 
daughter of Sir Ashburnham. Ob. 1665-6. 

?Of Balls, Herts. 

4Sir John Shaw, a Farmer of the Customs, was created a Baronet, 
in 1665, for his services in lending the King large sums of money during 
his exile. Ob. 1679-80. 

5In 1583; the object of his mission being to persuade the Muscovite 
(Ivan IV. The Terrible) to a peace with John, King of Sweden. He 
was also employed to confirm the trade of the English with Russia, and 
having incurred some personal danger, was received with favour on his 
return by the Queen. He died in 1616. There is a portrait of him 
in Lord Suffolk’s Gallery at Charlton. 

The Council of State sitting at Whitehall, says Lilly (Life, p. 124), 

x2 


324 DIARY OF [7th Sept, 


which I much wonder at; but yet he is certainly a very 
useful man. 

6th. To the Trinity House, where we had at dinner a 
couple of venison pasties, of which I ate but little, being 
almost cloyed, having been at five pasties in three days. 

7th. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall Chapell, where I 
heard a good sermon of the Deane of Ely’s," upon return- 
ing to the old ways. Home with Mr. Fox and his lady; 
and there dined with them, where much company come to 
them. Most of our discourse was what ministers are flung 
out that will not conform: and the care of the Bishop of 
London that we are here supplied with very good men. 
Meeting Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, he took me into 
Somersett-House; and there carried me into the Queen- 
Mother’s presence-chamber, where she was, with our Queen 
sitting on her left hand, whom I never did see before; 
and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, 
modest, and innocent look, which is pleasing. Here I also 
saw Madame Castelmaine, and, which pleased me most, 
Mr. Crofts,’ the King’s bastard, a most pretty sparke of 
about fifteen years old, who, I perceive, do hang much 
upon my Lady Castlemaine, and is always with her; and, 
I hear, the Queens both are mighty kind to him. By and 
by in comes in the King, and anon the Duke and his 
Duchess; so that, they being altogether, was such a sight 
as I never could almost have happened to see with so much 


had no knowledge of what was passing out of doors, until Sir Martin 
Noel, a discreet citizen, came about nine at night, and informed them 
thereof. From this notice, Noel has been considered as the original of 
the messenger who brings the news of the burning of the Rumps, so 
admirably related in Hudibras, part iii, canto 11, 1. 1497. We know 
nothing further about Sir Martin, except that he was a scrivener, and 
that Pepys records his death of the plague, in 1665. His son, of the 
same name, was knighted in November, 1665. 


1Francis Wilford, D.D., Master of Corpus Christi College, Cam- 
bridge, made Dean of Ely, 20th May, 1662. He died in July, 1667, 
being then Vice-Chancellor, and was buried in the chapel of his college. 


2 James, the son of Charles II. by Lucy Waters, daughter of Richard 
Waters of Haverfordwest, who bore the name of Crofts till he was 
created Duke of Monmouth in 1662, previously to his marriage with 
Lady Anne Scott, daughter to Francis, Earl of Buccleuch; from which 
Scotch the present Duke of Buccleuch descends. 


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ease and leisure. They staid till it was dark, and then 
went away; the King and his Queen, and my Lady Castle- 
maine and young Crofts, in one coach, and the rest in other 
coaches. Here were great store of great ladies, but very 
few handsome. The King and Queen were very merry; 
and he would have made the Queen-Mother believe that 
his Queen was with child, and said that she said so. And 
the young Queen answered, “ You lye;” which was the 
first English word that I ever heard her say: which made 
the King good sport; and he would have made her say in 
English, ** Confess and be hanged.” 

8th. With Mr. Coventry to the Duke; who, after he 
was out of his bed, did send for us in; and, when he was 
quite ready, took us into his closet, and there told us that 
he do intend to renew the old custom for the Admirals to 
have their principal officers to meet them once a-week; 
to give them an account what they have done that week; 
which I am glad of: and so the rest did tell his Royal 
Highness that I could do it best for the time past. And 
so I produced my short notes, and did give him an account 
of all that we have of late done; and proposed to him 
several things for his commands, which he did give us, 
and so dismissed us. 

10th. Up, and to my house, and there contrived a 
way how Sir John Minnes shall come into the leads, 
and yet I save part of the closet I hoped for, which, if 
it will not please him, I am a madman to be troubled 
at it. 

12th. This day, by letters from my father, I hear that 
Captain Ferrers, who is with my Lord in the country, 
was at Brampton, with Mr. Creed, to see him: a day 
or two ago, being provoked to strike one of my Lord’s 
footmen, the footman drew his sword, and hath almost 
cut the fingers of one of his hands off; which I am very 
sorry for: but this is the vanity of being apt to command 
and strike. 

14th. (Lord’s day.) By water to White Hall, by the 
way, hearing that the Bishop of London had given a very 
strict order against boats going on Sundays, and as I come 
back again, we were examined by the masters of the 


326 DIARY OF [18th Sept. 


company, in another boat; but I told them who I was. To 
White Hall chapel, where sermon almost done, and I heard 
Captain Cooke’s new musique. This the first day of having 
vialls and other instruments to play a symphony between 
every verse of the anthems; but the musique more full than 
it was last Sunday, and very fine it is. But yet I could 
discern Captain Cooke to overdo his part at singing, which 
I never did before. Thence up into the Queen’s presence, 
and there saw the Queen again as I did last Sunday, and 
some fine ladies with her; but, by my troth, not many. 
Thence to Sir G. Carteret’s, and find him to have sprained 
his foot, and is lame, but yet hath been at chappell, and 
my Lady much troubled for one of her daughters that is 
sick. I dined with them, and a very pretty lady, their 
kinswoman, with them. My joy is, that I do think I have 
good hold on Sir George and Mr. Coventry. 

15th. By water with Sir William Pen to White Hall; 
and, with much ado, was fain to walk over the piles through 
the bridge, while Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes were 
aground against the bridge, and could not in a great while 
get through. At White Hall we hear that the Duke of 
York is gone a-hunting to-day; and so we returned: they 
going to the Duke of Albemarle’s, where I left them, after 
I had observed a very good picture or two there. 

16th. My wife writes me from the country, that she is 
not pleased there with my father, nor mother, nor any of 
her servants, and that my boy is turned a very rogue. I 
have 801. to pay to the cavaliers: then a doubt about my 
being forced to leave all my business here, when I am called 
to the court at Brampton; and lastly, my law businesses, 
which vex me to my heart what I shall be able to do next 
terme, which is near at hand. 

18th. At noon, Sir G. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I by 
invitation to dinner to Sheriff Meynell’s, the great 


1 Alderman Francis Meynell was a goldsmith and banker in London, 
and then one of the Sheriffs. He was the third son of Godfrey Meynell, 
of Willington, in Derbyshire, and died in 1666; his father was buried 
at Langley, in that county, where their descendants still possess pro- 
perty. Hugo Charles Ingram Meynell, of Hoare Cross, Staffordshire, 
and Temple Newsome near Leeds, is the present representative of the 
family. Sir W. Dugdale, in his Diary, mentions his having defaced the 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 827 


money-man; he, and Alderman Backewell, and much noble 
and brave company, with the privilege of their rare dis- 
course, which is great content to me above all other things 
in the world; and after a great dinner and much discourse, 
we took leave. Among other discourses, speaking con- 
cerning the great charity used in Catholique countrys, 
Mr. Ashburnham did tell us, that this last year, there 
being a great want of corne in Paris, and so a collection 
made for the poor, there was two pearles brought in, 
nobody knew from whom, till the Queen, seeing them, 
knew whose they were, but did not discover it, which were 
sold for 200,000 crownes. 

19th. To Deptford and Woolwich yard. At night, after 
I had eaten a cold pullet, I walked by brave moonshine, 
with three or four armed men, to guard me, to Redriffe—it 
being a joy to my heart to think of the condition that I 
was now in, that people should of themselves provide this 
for me, unspoke to. I hear this walk is dangerous to walk 
by night, and much robbery committed here. 

20th. To-night, my barber sent me his man to trim me, 
who did live in King Streete in Westminster lately, and 
tells me that three or four that I knew in that streete, 
tradesmen, are lately fallen mad, and some of them dead, 
and the others continue mad. They live all within a door 
or two of one another. 

21st. (Lord’s day.) To the Parke. The Queen coming 
by in her coach, going to her chapel at St. James’s, the 
first time that it hath been ready for her, I crowded after 
her, and I got up to the room where her closet is; and 
there stood and saw the fine altar, ornaments, and the 
fryers in their habits, and the priests come in with their 
fine crosses and many other fine things. I heard their 
musique too; which may be good, but it did not appear so 
to me, neither as to their manner of singing, nor was it 
good concord to my ears, whatever the matter was. The 


achievements which had hung up at Bradley, in Derbyshire, where 
the Alderman was interred: not, as it would seem, from any doubt as 
to that gentleman being entitled to bear arms, but because a London 
painter had been employed to blazon the shield, who had not obtained 
the sanction of the Heralds’ Office, and thereby excited their jealousy, 
at a moment when their occupation was on the decline. 


328 DIARY OF [24th Sept 


Queen very devout; but what pleased me best was to see 
my dear Lady Castlemaine, who, though a Protestant, did 
‘wait upon the Queen to chapel. By and by, after masse 
was done, a fryer with his cowl did rise up and preach a 
sermon in Portuguese; which I not understanding, did go 
away and to the King’s chapel, but that was done; and so 
up to the Queen’s presence-chamber, where she and the 
King were expected to dine: but she, staying at St. 
James’s, they were forced to remove the things to the 
King’s presence [chamber]; and there he dined alone, and 
I with Mr. Fox very finely; but I see I must not make too 
much of that liberty for my honour sake only—not but 
that I am very well received. 

22d. Up betimes, hastening to get things ready against 
my wife’s coming. Walked to Greatorex’s, and have be- 
spoke a weather-glasse of him. Thence to my Lord Crewe’s, 
and dined with the servants, he having dined; and so, after 
dinner, up to him, and sat an hour talking with him of 
publique, and my Lord’s private businesses, with much 
content. 

23d. Sir G. Carteret told me how in most cabaretts 
in France they have writ upon the walls in fair letters 
to be read, “ Dieu te regarde,” as a good lesson to be in 
every man’s mind, and have also in Holland their poor’s 
box; in both which places, at the making all contracts 
and bargains they give so much, which they call God’s 
penny.’ 

24th. To my Lord Crewe’s, and there dined alone with 
him; and among other things, he do advise me by all means 
' to keep my Lord Sandwich from proceeding too far in the 
business of Tangier. First, for that he is confident the 
King will not be able to find money for the building of the 
Mole; and next, for that it is to be done, as we propose it, 
by the reducing of the garrison; and then, either my Lord 
must oppose the Duke of York, who will have the Irish 
regiment under the command of Fitzgerald continued, or 
else my Lord Peterborough, who is concerned to have the 
English continued; but he, it seems, is gone back again 
merely upon my Lord Sandwich’s encouragement. ‘Thence 


‘Pepys himself gives an account of this custom: see May 18, 1660, 
ante, 


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to Mr. Wotton, the shoemaker’s, and there bought a pair 
of boots—cost me 30s.; and he told me how Bird’ hath 
lately broke his leg, while he was dancing in “ Aglaura ”* 
upon the stage; and that the new theatre of all will be 
ready against terme. I hear that I have the name of 
good-natured man among the poor people that come to the 
office. 

25th. I did hear how the woman, formerly nurse to Mrs. 
Lemon (Sir W. Batten’s daughter), her child was torn to 
pieces by two dogs at Walthamstow this week, and is dead, 
which is very strange. 

27th. My wife’s chamber put into a good readiness against 
her coming, which she did at night; for Will did, by my 
leave, go to meet her upon the road, and at night did bring 
me word she was come to my brother’s, by my order. So I 
went thither to her. Being come, I found her, and _ her 
maid, and her dog very well, and herself grown a little 
fatter than she was. And I perceive she likes Brampton 
House and seat better than ever I did myself; and tells me 
how my Lord hath drawn a plot of some alterations to 
be made there, and hath brought it up, which I saw and 
like well. I perceive my Lord and Lady have been very 
kind to her. 

28th. (Lord’s day.) To the French Church at the Savoy, 
and there they have the Common Prayer Book read in 
French, and, which I never saw before, the minister do 
preach with his hat off, I suppose in further conformity with 
our Church. 

29th. (Michaelmas day.) This day my oaths for drinking 
of wine and going to plays are out; and so I do resolve to 
take a liberty to-day, and then to fall to them again. To 
Mr. Coventry’s, and so with him and Sir W. Pen up to the 
Duke, where the King come also, and staid till the Duke was 
ready. It being Collar-day, we had no time to talk with 
him about any business. To the King’s Theatre, where we 
saw ‘“‘ Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never 
seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, 
ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. Home, where I 
find Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, hath sent me the modell he 


1 Should be Nicholas Burt, the actor. 
7A tragi-comedy, by Sir John Suckling. 


330 DIARY OF [2d Oct. 


had promised me; but it so far exceeds my expectations, 
that I am sorry almost he should make such a present to no 
greater a person, but I am exceedingly glad of it, and shall 
study to do him a courtesy for it. 

30th. To the Duke’s play-house, where we saw ‘“ The 
Duchess of Malfy ”* well performed, but Betterton and 
Ianthe [ Mrs. Betterton] to admiration. Strange to see how 
easily my mind do revert to its former practice of loving 
plays and wine; but this night I have again bound myself 
to Christmas next. I have also made up this evening my 
monthly ballance, and find that, notwithstanding the loss of 
301. to be paid to the loyall and necessitous cavaliers by act 
of Parliament, yet I am worth about 680l., for which the 
Lord God be praised. My condition at present is this: I 
have long been building, and my house, to my great content, 
is now almost done. My Lord Sandwich has lately been in 
the country, and very civil to my wife, and hath himself 
spent some pains in drawing a plot of some alterations in 
our house there, which I shall follow as I get money. As 
for the office, my late industry hath been such, as I am be- 
come as high in reputation as any man there, and good hold 
I have of Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, which I am 
resolved, and it is necessary for me, to maintain, by all fair 
means. Things are all quiet. The late outing of the Presby- 
terian clergy, by their not renouncing the Covenant as the 
Act of Parliament commands, is the greatest piece of state 
now in discourse. But, for ought I see, they are gone out 
very peaceably, and the people not so much concerned there- 
in as was expected. 

October 2d. At night, hearing that there was a play at 
the Cockpit, and my Lord Sandwich, who come to town 
last night, at it, I do go thither, and by very great fortune 
did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to a little 
private door in the wall, and so crept through a narrow 
place, and come into one of the boxes next the King’s but 
so as I could not see the King or Queen, but many of the 
fine ladies, who yet are really not so handsome generally as 
I used to take them to be, but that they are finely dressed. 
Then we saw “ The Cardinall,’” a tragedy I had never seen 


1A tragedy, by John Webster. 
2A tragi-comedy, by James Shirley. 


en 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 331 


before, nor is there any great matter in it. The company 
that come in with me into the box were all Frenchmen, that 
could speak no English; but Lord! what sport they made 
to ask a pretty lady that they got among them, that under- 
stood both French and English, to make her tell them what 
the actors said. 

4th. Examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the 
Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast, through 
the negligence of the pilott. 

5th. (Lord’s day.) I to church; and this day the parson 
has got one to read with the surplice on. I suppose himself 
will take it up hereafter, for a cunning fellow he is as any 
of his coate. 

6th. To White Hall with Mr. Coventry, and so to my 
Lord Sandwich’s lodgings; but my Lord not within, being 
at a ball this night with the King at my Lady Castlemaine’s, 
at next door. 

7th. To my Lord’s, and there I left money for Captain 
Ferrers to buy me two bands. 

8th. To my Lord Sandwich’s, and, among other things, to 
my extraordinary joy, he did tell me how much I was be- 
holding to the Duke of York, who did yesterday of his own 
accord tell him that he did thank him for one person brought 
into the Navy, naming myself, and much more to my com- 
mendation, which is the greatest comfort and encourage- 
ment that ever I had in my life, and do owe it all to Mr. 
Coventry’s goodness and ingenuity. At night by coach to 
my Lord’s again, but he is at Whitehall with the King, be- 
fore whom the puppet plays I saw this summer in Covent- 
garden, are acted this night. My scallop,” bought and got 
made by Captain Ferrers’ lady, is sent, and I brought it 
home—a very neat one. It cost me about 31., and 31. more 
I have given him to buy me another. 

9th. Up early to get me ready for my journey. To the 
office; and I bid them adieu for a week, having the Duke’s 
leave got me by Mr. Coventry, to whom I did give thanks 
for my news yesterday of the Duke’s words to my Lord 
Sandwich concerning me, which he took well; and do tell 


1A lace band, the edges of which were indented with segments of 
circles, so as to resemble a scallop-shell. 


332 DIARY OF [10th Oct, 
{ 


me so freely his love and value of me, that my mind is now 
in as great a state of quiet, as to my interest in the office, 
as I could ever wish. to be. Between one and two o’clock 
got on horse-back at our back gate, with my man Will with 
me, both well mounted on two grey horses. We got to 
Ware before night; and so I resolved to ride on to Puck- 
eridge, which we did, though the way was bad, and the 
evening dark before we got thither, by help of company 
riding before us; among others, a gentleman that took up 
at the same inn, his name Mr. Brian, with whom I supped, 
and was very good company, and a scholar. He tells me, 
that it is believed the Queen is with child, for that 
the coaches are ordered to ride very easily through the 
streets. 

10th. Up, and between eight and nine mounted again; 
but my feet so swelled with yesterday’s pain, that I could 
not get on my boots, which vexed me to the blood, but was 
forced to pay 4s. for a pair of old shoes of my landlord’s, 
and so rid in shoes to Cambridge; the way so good that I 
got very well thither, and set up at the Beare; and there 
my cozen Angier come to me, and I must needs to his 
house; and there found Dr. Fairbrother, with a good dinner. 
But, above all, he telling me that this day there is a Con- 
gregation for the choice of some officers in the University, 
he after dinner gets me a gowne, cap, and hoode, and carries 
me to the Schooles, where Mr. Pepper, my brother’s tutor, 
and this day chosen Proctor, did appoint a M.A. to lead me 
into the Regent House, where I sat with them, and did vote 
by subscribing papers thus: ‘‘ Ego Samuel Pepys eligo Ma- 
gistrum Bernardum Skelton,”* and, which was more strange, 
my old schoolfellow and acquaintance, and who afterwards 
did take notice of me, and we spoke together, “ alterum é 
taxatoribus hujus Academiz# in annum sequentem.” The 
like I did for one Briggs, for the other Taxor, and for other 
officers, as the Vice-Proctor, (Mr. Covell) for Mr. Pepper, 
and which was the gentleman that did carry me into the 
Regent House. This being done, I did with much content 
return to my cozen Angier’s. Thence to Trinity Hall with 
Dr. John Pepys, who tells me that [his] brother Roger has 


1 Afterwards agent in Holland for James II., who made use of him 
to inveigle over to England the Duke of Monmouth. 


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gone out of town to keep a Court; and so I was forced to 
go to Impington, to take such advice as my old uncle and 
his son Claxton could give me. By and by after supper 
comes in, unlooked for, my cozen Roger, with whom I dis- 
coursed largely, and he tells me plainly that it is my best 
way to study a composition with my uncle Thomas, for that 
law will not help us, and that it is but a folly to flatter 
ourselves. 

11th. Up betimes, and after a little breakfast, and a very 
poor one, like our supper, and such as I cannot feed on, be- 
cause of my she-cozen Claxton’s gouty hands; and after 
Roger had carried me up and down his house and orchards, 
to show me them, I mounted, and rode to Huntingdon, and 
so to Brampton, where I found my father and two brothers, 
my mother and sister. I walked up and down the house 
and garden, and find my father’s alteracions very hand- 
some. Rid to Hinchingbroke (Will with me), and there to 
my Lady’s chamber and saw her, but staid not long. 

12th. (Lord’s day.) Made myself fine with Captain Fer- 
rers’s lace band, being loth to wear my own new scallop, 
it is so fine; and after the barber had done with us, to 
church, where I saw most of the gentry of the parish; 
among others, Mrs. Hanbury, a proper lady, and Mr. Ber- 
nard and his Lady, with her father, my late Lord St. John," 
who looks now like a very plain, grave man. Mr. Wells 
preached a pretty good sermon, and they say he is pretty 
well in his wits again. 

13th. Up to Hinchingbroke, and there, with Mr. Shepley, 
did look all over the house, and I do, I confess, like well of 
the alterations, and do like the staircase; but there being 
nothing done to make the outside more regular and mo- 
derner, I am not satisfied with it, but do think it to be too 
much to be laid out upon it. Thence he to St. Ives Market, 
and I to Sir Robert Bernard’s for council, having a letter 


1QOliver St. John, one of Cromwell’s Lords, and Chief Justice; and 
therefore, after the Restoration, properly called “ My late Lord.” His 
third daughter, Elizabeth, by his second wife, daughter of Henry Crom- 
well, of Upwood, uncle to the Protector, married John Bernard, who 
became a baronet on the death of his father, Sir Robert, and was M.P. 
for Huntingdon. Ob. 1689. There is a monument to his memory in 
Brampton Church, Huntingdonshire. 


334 DIARY OF [14th Oct. 


from my Lord Sandwich to that end. He do promise to put 
off my uncle’s admittance, if he can fairly. With my father 
took a melancholy walk to Portholme, seeing the country- 
maids milking their cowes there, they being there now at 
grasse, and to see with what mirth they come all home to- 
gether in pomp with their milk, and sometimes they have 
musique go before them. So back home again. 

14th. Up, about nine o’clock, to the court at the Lord- 
shipp, where the jury was called; and, there being vacancies, 
they would have my father, in respect to him, [to] have 
been one of the Homage, but he thought fit to refuse it, he 
not knowing enough the customs of the town. They being 
sworne, and the charge given them, they fell to our busi- 
ness, finding the heire-at-law to be my uncle Thomas: but 
Sir Robert [Bernard] did tell them that he had seen how 
the estate was devised to my father by my uncle’s will, ac- 
cording to the custom of the Manour, which they would 
have denied, first, that it was not according to the custom of 
the Manour, proposing some difficulties about the half acie 
of land which is given the heire-at-law according to custome, 
which did put me into great fear, lest it might not [have ] 
become my uncle’s possession at his death. But the steward, 


as he promised me, did find pretensions very kindly and ~ 


readily to put off their admittance, by which I find they are 
much defeated, and if ever, I hope, will now listen to a treaty 
and agreement with us, at our meeting at London: so they 
took their leaves of the steward and Court, and went away. 
My father and I home with great content to dinner; my 
mind now as full against the-afternoon business, which we 
sat upon after dinner at the court. To the Court, and did 
sue out a recovery, and cut off the intayle; and my brothers 
there, to join therein. And my father and I admitted to all 
the lands; he for life, and I for myself and heirs in re- 
version. I did with most compleat joy of mind go from the 
Court with my father home, and in a quarter of an hour did 
get on horseback, with my brother Tom, Cooke, and Will, 
all mounted, and, without eating, or drinking, take leave of 
my father, mother, Pall, to whom I did give 10s., but have 
shown no kind of kindness since I come, for I find her so 
very ill-natured, that I cannot love her, and she so cruel an 


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1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 835 


hypocrite, that she can cry when she pleases, and John and 
I away, calling in at Hinchingbroke, and taking leave in 
three words of my Lady, and the young ladies; and so by 
moonlight to Cambridge, whither we come at about nine 
o’clock, and took up at the Beare. 

15th. Waked very early; and when it was time, did call 
up Will, and we rose, and musique (with a bandore for the 
base) did give me a levett;’ and so we got ready; and while 
breakfast was providing, showed Mr. Cooke King’s College 
Chapel, Trinity College, and St. John’s College Library; and 
that being done, to our inn again; where I met Dr. Fair- 
brother. He told us how the room we were in was the 
room where Cromwell and his associated officers did begin 
to plot and act their mischiefs in these counties. Took leave 
of all, and begun our journey about nine o’clock, the roads 
being every where but bad; but, finding our horses in good 
case, we even made shift to reach London, though both of 
us very weary. Found all things well, there happening 
nothing, since our going, to my discontent, in the least de- 
gree; which do also please me, that I cannot but bless God 
for my journey, observing a whole course of successe from 
the beginning to the end of it. 

16th. I rose in good temper, finding a good chimney-piece 
made in my upper dining-room chamber, and the dining- 
room wainscoate in a good forwardness. I hear Mr. Moore 
is in a fair way of recovery, and Sir H. Bennet’ is made 
Secretary of State in Sir Edward Nicholas’s stead; not known 
whether by consent or not. 

17th. To Creed’s chamber, and there sat a good while, 
and drank chocolate. Here I am told how things go at 
Court; that the young men get uppermost, and the old 
‘serious lords are out of favour; that Sir H. Bennet being 
brought into Sir Edward Nicholas’s place, Sir Charles Barke- 
ley® is made Privy Purse; a most vicious person, and one 


1A blast of trumpets, intended as a réveillée. 


2 Created Baron of Arlington, 1663, and Viscount Thetford and Earl of 
Arlington, 1672; he was also K.G., and Chamberlain to the King. Ob. 
1685. His daughter and sole heir married the first Duke of Grafton. 

*Created Lord Berkeley of Rathdown, and Viscount Fitzharding 
(Irish honours) soon afterwards, and, in 1664, Baron Bottetourt, and 


336 DIARY OF [20th Oct. 


whom Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, did tell me that he offered 
his wife 300/. per annum to be his mistress. He also told 
me, that none in Court hath more the King’s eare now than 
Sir Charles Barkeley, and Sir H. Bennet and my Lady Castle- 
maine, whose interest is now as great as ever; and that Mrs. 
Haselrigge, the great beauty, is now brought to bed, and 
lays it to the King or the Duke of York.1 He tells me, also, 
that my Lord St. Albans is like to be Lord Treasurer: all 
which things do trouble me much. 

19th. (Lord’s day.) Put on my first new lace-band; and 
so neat it is, that I am resolved my great expence shall be 
lace-bands, and it will set off any thing else the more. To 
see Mr. Moore, who recovers well; and his doctor coming to 
him—one Dr. Merrit’—we had some of his very good dis- 
course of anatomy and other things, very pleasant. I am 
sorry to hear that the news of the selling of Dunkirke is 
taken so generally ill, as I find it is among the merchants; 
and other things, as removal of officers at Court, good for 
worse; and all things else made much worse in their report 
among people than they are. And this night, I know not 
upon what ground, the gates of the City ordered to be all 
shut, and double guards every where. Indeed, I do find 
every body’s spirit very full of trouble; and the things of 
the Court and Council very ill taken; so as to be apt to ap- 
pear in bad colours, if there should ever be a beginning of 
trouble, which God forbid! 

20th. In Sir J. Minnes’s coach, with him and Sir W. 
Batten, to White Hall, where now the Duke is come again 
to lodge; and to Mr. Coventry’s little new chamber there. 
And by and by up to the Duke, who was making himself 
ready; and there young Killigrew did so commend “ The 
Villaine,”* a new play made by Tom Porter, and acted only 


Earl of Falmouth, in England. He was the second son of Sir Charles 
Berkeley, of Bruton. 


* The child was owned by neither of the royal brothers. 


* Christopher Merret, M.D., a native of Gloucestershire, author of 
several works on medicine and natural history. Ob. 1695. 


°A tragedy, by T. Porter. “The Villain, a tragedy which I have 
seen acted at the Duke’s Theatre with great applause: the part of Ma- 
lignii being incomparably played by Mr. Sandford.” Langbaine, p. 407. 
“This person [Sandford] acted strongly with his face; and, as King 
Charles said, was the best villain in the world.”— Tony Aston, p. 11. 


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on Saturday at the Duke’s house, as if there never had been 
any such play come upon the stage. The same yesterday 
was told me by Captain Ferrers; and this morning after- 
wards by Dr. Clarke, who saw it. After I had done with 
the Duke, with Commissioner Pett to Mr. Lilly’s, the great 
painter, who come forth to us; but, believing that I come to 
bespeak a picture, he prevented it by telling us, that he should 
not be at leisure these three weeks; which methinks is a 
rare thing. And then to see in what pomp his table was 
laid for himself to go to dinner; and. here, among other 
pictures, saw the so much desired by me picture of my Lady 
Castlemaine, which is a most blessed picture: and one that 
I must have a copy of. From thence I took my wife by 
coach to the Duke’s house, and there was the house full of 
company; but whether it was in over-expecting, or what, I 
know not; but I was never less pleased with a play in my 
life. Though there was good singing and dancing, yet no 
fancy in the play. Dunkirke, I am confirmed, is absolutely 
sold; for which I am very sorry. 

21st. By water with Mr. Smith to Mr. Lechmore,' the 
Councillor at the Temple, about Field’s business; and he 
tells me plainly that, there being a verdict against me, there 
is no help for, but it must proceed to judgment. It is 301. 
damage to me for my joining with others in committing Field 
to prison, as being not Justices of the Peace in the City, 
though in Middlesex ; which troubled me, and I hope the King 
will make it good to us. To Mr. Smith, the scrivener, upon 
Ludgate-hill, to whom Mrs. Butler do committ her busi- 
ness concerning her daughter and my brother. She tells 
me, her daughter’s portion is but 4001., at which I am more 
troubled than before; and they find fault that his house 
is too little. 

22d. To my Lord Sandwich’s, who receives me now more 
and more kindly, now he sees that I am respected in the 
world; and is my most noble patron. To Mr. Smith’s, 
where I met Mrs. Butler, with whom I plainly discoursed, 
and she with me. I find she will give but 400/., and no more, 


* Nicholas Lechmere, knighted and made a Baron of the Exchequer, 
1689. Ob. 1701. 


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338 DIARY OF [24th Oct. 


and is not willing to that, without a joynture, which she 
expects, and I will not grant for the portion. I find her a 
very discreet, sober woman, and her daughter, I understand 
and believe, is a good lady; and if portions did agree, though 
she finds fault with Tom’s house, and his bad imperfection in 
his speech, I believe we should agree in other matters. 
Home. Benier, being acquainted with all the players, do tell 
me that Betterton is not married to Ianthe, as they say; 
but also, that he is a very sober, serious man, and studious, 
and humble, following of his studies, and is rich already, 
with what he gets and saves. This night was buried, as I 
hear by the bells of Barking Church, my poor Morena,! 
whose sickness being desperate, did kill her poor father; and 
he being dead for sorrow, she could not recover, nor desire 
to live, but from that time do languish more and more, and 
so is now dead and buried. 

24th. Dined with my wife upon a most excellent dish of 
tripes of my own directing, covered with mustard, as I have 
heretofore seen them done at my Lord Crewe’s, of which I 
made a very great meal, and sent for a glass of wine for 
myself. Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, tells me how ill things 
go at Court: that the King do show no countenance to any 
that belong to the Queen; nor, above all, to such English 
as she brought over with her, or hath here since, for fear 
they should tell her how he carries himself to Lady Castle- 
maine; insomuch, that though he has a promise, and is 
sure of being made her chyrurgeon, he is at a loss what to 
do in it, whether to take it or no, since the King’s. mind 


*The only burial recorded in the parish Register of All Hallows, 
Barking, as having taken place on the 22d October, 1662, is that of 
Elizabeth, daughter of John Dickens; and the circumstance of her 
father’s interment being entered in the same book, just a week before, 
leaves no question that she was the person alluded to. The word being 
doubtful in the MS., Morena is here substituted for Morma, which has 
no intelligible signification, at the suggestion of Mr. J. S. Warden; see 
Notes and Queries, vol. vii. p. 118. Morena, he tells us, is good Portu- 
guese for a Brunette; and it was probably adopted by Pepys to indicate 
that Miss Dickens had a dark complexion. It is further possible that 
the same expression was applied to Catherine of Braganza, who, as is 
well known, was a beauty of a similar description, and the courtiers 
might naturally wish to pay Her Majesty a compliment in the language 
of her own country. 


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is so altered and favour to all her dependants, whom she 
is fain to let go back into Portugall, though she brought 
them from their friends against their wills, with promise of 
preferment, without doing any thing for them. That her 
own physician did tell him within these three days that 
the Queen do know how the King orders things, and 
how he carries himself to my Lady Castlemaine and others, 
as well as any body; but though she hath spirit enough, 
yet seeing that she do no good by taking notice of it, 
for the present she forbears it in policy; of which I 
am very glad. But I do pray God keep us in peace: 
for this, with other things, do give great discontent to all 
people. 

26th. (Lord’s day.) Put on my new scallop, which is 
very fine. To church, and there saw the first time Mr. Mills 
in a surplice; but it seemed absurd for him to pull it over 
his eares in the reading pew, after he had done, before all 
the church, to go up to the pulpitt, to preach without it. 
Home, and dined. Tom takes his disappointment of his 
mistress to heart; but all will be well again in a little time. 
Then to church again, and heard a simple Scot preach most 
tediously. All this day soldiers going up and down the 
town, there being an alarme, and many Quakers and others 
clapped up; but, I believe, without any reason: only they 
say in Dorsetshire there hath been some rising discovered. 
After supper, making up my monthly account to myself. I 
find myself, by my expense in bands and clothes this month, 
abated a little of my last, and that I am worth 6791. still; 
for which God be praised. 

27th. To my Lord Sandwich, who now-a-days calls me 
into his chamber, and alone did discourse with me about the 
jealousy that the Court have of people’s rising: wherein he 
do much dislike my Lord Monk’s being so eager against a 
company of poor wretches, dragging them up and down the 
street; but would have him rather take some of the greatest 
ringleaders of them, and punish them; whereas, this do but 
tell the world the King’s fears and doubts. For Dunkirke, 
he wonders any wise people should be so troubled thereat, 
and scorns all their talk against it, for that he sees it was 
not Dunkirke, but the other places, that did and would 

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340 DIARY OF [27th Oct. 


annoy us, though we had that, as much as if we had it not. 
He also took notice of the new Ministers of State, Sir H. 
Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley, their bringing in, and the 
high game that my Lady Castlemaine plays at Court. After- 
wards he told me of poor Mr. Spong, that being with other 
people examined before the King and Council (they being 
laid up as suspected persons; and it seems Spong is so far 
thought guilty as that they intend to pitch upon him to put 
to the wracke or some other torture), he do take knowledge 
of my Lord Sandwich, and said that he was well known to 
Mr. Pepys. But my Lord knows, and I told him, that it 
was only in matter of musique and pipes, but that I thought 
him to be a very innocent fellow; and indeed I am very 
sorry for him. After my Lord and I had done in private, 
we went out, and with Captain Cuttance and Bunn did look 
over their draught of a bridge for Tangier, which will be 
brought by my desire to our office by them to-morrow. To 
Westminster Hall, and there walked long with Creed; and 
then to the great half-a-crowne ordinary, at the King’s 
Head, near Charing Crosse, where we had a most excellent 
meat dinner and very high company, and in a noble manner. 
He showed me our commission, wherein the Duke of York, 
Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, Lord Peterborough, 
Lord Sandwich, Sir G. Carteret, Sir William Compton, Mr. 
Coventry, Sir R. Ford, Sir William Rider, Mr. Cholmley, 
Mr. Povy, myself, and Captain Cuttance, in this order are 
joyned for the carrying on the service of Tangier, which I 
take for a great honour to me. He told me what great 
faction there is at Court; and above all, what is whispered, 
that young Crofts is lawful son to the King, the King bemg 
married to his mother.1. How true this is, God knows; but 
I believe the Duke of York will not be fooled in this of 
three crowns. Thence to White Hall, and walked long in 
the gardens, till, as they are commanded to all strange 
persons, one come to tell us, we not being known, and being 
observed to walk there four or five houres, which was not 
true, unless they count my walking there in the morning, 
he was commanded to ask who we were; which being told, 
he excused his question, and was satisfied. These things 


*Lucy Waters. 


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speake great feare and jealousys. To the Exchange: among 
other things, observing one very pretty Exchange lass, with 
her face full of black patches, which was a strange sight. I 
met Mr. Mills, who tells me that he could get nothing out 
of the mayde hard by, that did poison herself, before she 
died, but that she did it because she did not like herself, nor 
anything she did a great while. It seems she was well- 
favoured enough, but crooked, and this is all she could be 
got to say, which is very strange. 

29th. (Lord Mayor’s day.’) Sir G. Carteret, who had 
been at the examining most of the late people that are 
clapped up, do say that he do not think that there hath 
been any great plotting among them, though they have a 
good will to it; and their condition is so poor, and silly, and 
low, that they do not fear them at all. 

30th. To my Lord Sandwich, who was up in his chamber 
and all alone, and did acquaint me with his business: which 
was, that our old acquaintance, Mr. Wade in Axe Yard, 
hath discovered to him 70001. hid in the Tower, of which he 
was to have two for discovery; my Lord himself two, and 
the King the other three, when it was found: and that the 
King’s warrant runs for me on my Lord’s part, and one Mr. 
Lee for Sir Harry Bennet, to demand leave of the Lieu- 
tenant of the Tower for to make search. After he had told 
me the whole business, I took leave: and at noon, comes 
Mr. Wade with my Lord’s letter. So we consulted for me 
to go first to Sir H. Bennet, who is now with many of the 
Privy Counsellors at the Tower, examining of their late 
prisoners, to advise with him to begin. So I went; and the 
guard at the Tower Gate, making me leave my sword at the 
Gate, I was forced to stay so long in the ale-house close by, 
till my boy run home for my cloak, that my Lord Mayor 
that now is, Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, 
with all his company, was gone with their coaches to his 
house in Minchin Lane. So my cloak being come, I walked 
thither: and there, by Sir G. Carteret’s means, did pre- 
sently speak with Sir H. Bennet, who did give me the 
King’s warrant, for the paying of 20001. to my Lord, and 


1Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, Mayor. 


342 DIARY OF [30th Oct. 


other two to the discoverers. After a little discourse, 
dinner come in; and I dined with them. There was my 
Lord Mayor, my Lord Lauderdale, Mr. Secretary Morris, to 
whom Sir H. Bennet would give the upper hand; Sir 
William Compton, Sir G. Carteret, and myself, and some 
other company, and a brave dinner. After dinner, Sir H. 
Bennet did call aside the Lord Mayor and me, and did break 
the business to him, who did not, nor durst appear the least 
averse to it, but did promise all assistance forthwith to set 
upon it. So Mr. Lee and I to our office, and there walked, 
till Mr. Wade, and one Evett, his guide, did come, and 
W. Griffin, and a porter with his picke-axes, &c.: and so 
they walked along with us to the Tower, and Sir H. Bennet 
and my Lord Mayor did give us full power to fall to work. 
So our guide demands a candle, and down into the cellars 
he goes, enquiring whether they were the same that Bark- 
stead’ always had. He went into several little cellars, and 
then went out a-doors to view, and to the Cole Harbour ;? 
but none did answer so well to the marks which was given 
him to find it by, as one arched vault, where, after a great 
deal of council whether to set upon it now, or delay for better 
and more full advice, to digging we went till almost eight 
o’clock at night, but could find nothing. But, however, 
our guides did not at all seem discouraged; for that they 
being confident that the money is there they look for, but 
having never been in the cellars, they could not be positive 
to the place, and therefore will inform themselves more 
fully, now they have been there, of the party that do advise 
them. So, locking the door after us, we left here to-night, 
and up to the Deputy-Governor, my Lord Mayor and Sir 
H. Bennet, with the rest of the company, being gone an 
hour before; and he do undertake to keep the key of the 
cellars, that none shall go down without his privity. But, 
Lord! to see what a young simple fantastick coxcombe is 
made Deputy-Governor, would make me mad; and how he 
called out for his night-gowne of silk, only to make a show 


1John Barkstead, one of the regicides, Lieutenant of the Tower 
under Cromwell. 

*'The meaning of this word, though applied to a great many localities, 
has never been satisfactorily explained. 


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to us: and yet for half an hour I did not think he was the 
Deputy-Governor, and so spoke not to him about the 
business, but waited for another man; but at last I broke 
our business to him; and he promising his care, we parted. 
And Mr. Lee and I by coach to White Hall, where I did 
give my Lord Sandwich a full account of our proceedings, 
and some encouragement to hope for something hereafter. 
This morning, walking with Mr. Coventry in the garden, 
he did tell me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the business 
of the Victuallers’? money to be paid by himself, contrary 
to’ old practice; at which he is angry, I perceive, but I 
believe means no hurt, but that things may be done as they 
ought. He expects Sir George should not bespatter him 
privately, in revenge, but openly, against which he prepares 
to bedaube him, and swears he will do it from the be- 
ginning, from Jersey to this day. And as to his own 
taking of too large fees or rewards for places that he had 
sold, he will prove that he was directed to it by Sir George 
himself, among others. And yet he did not deny Sir G. 
Carteret his due, in saying that he is a man that do take 
the most pains, and gives himself the most to do business 
of any about the Court, without any desire of pleasure or 
divertisements: which is very true. But, which pleased 
me mightily, he said in these words, that he was resolved, 
what ever it cost him, to make an experiment, and see 
whether it was possible for a man to keep himself up in 
Court by dealing plainly and walking uprightly: in the 
doing whereof, if his ground do slip from under him, he will 
be contented: but he is resolved to try, and never to baulke 
taking notice of anything that is to the King’s prejudice, 
let it fall where it will; which is a most brave resolution. 
He was very free with me: and, by my troth, I do see more 
reall worth in him than in most men that I do know. I 
would not forget two passages of Sir J. Minnes’s at yester- 
day’s dinner. The one, that to the question how it comes 
to pass that there are no boars seen in London, but many 
sowes and pigs; it was answered that the constable gets 
them a-nights. The other, Thomas Killigrew’s way of 
getting to see plays when he was a boy. He would go to 
the Red Bull, and when the man cried to the boys, ‘* Who 


344 DIARY OF [ist Nov. 


will go and be a devil, and he shall see the play for nothing?” 
then would he go in, and be a devil upon the stage, and so 
get to see plays. 

31st. Thus ends this month: my head troubled with 
much business, but especially my fear of Sir J. Minnes 
claiming my bed-chamber of me, but I hope now that it is 
almost over, for I perceive he is fittimg his house to go into 
it the next week. I thank God I have no crosses, but only 
much business to trouble my mind with. Im all other 
things, as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole 
world seems to smile upon me, and if my house were done 
that I could diligently follow my business, I would not 
doubt to do God, and the King, and myself good service. 
And all I do impute almost wholly to my late temperance, 
since my making of my vows against wine and plays, which 
keeps me most happily and contentfully to my business; 
which God continue! Public matters are full of discon- 
tent, what with the sale of Dunkirke, and my Lady Castle- 
maine, and her faction at Court; though I know not what 
they would have more than to debauch the King, whom 
God preserve from it! And then great plots are talked to 
be discovered, and all the prisons in town full of ordinary 
people, taken from their meeting-places last Sunday. But 
for certain some plots there hath been, though not brought 
to a head. 

November 1st. With Mr. Creed to the Trinity House, to 
a great dinner there, by invitation, and much company. It 
seems one Captain Evans makes his Elder Brother’s dinner 
to-day. To my office, to meet Mr. Lee again, from Sir H. 
Bennet. And he and I with Wade and his intelligencer 
and labourers, to the Tower cellars, to make one triall more: 
where we staid two or three hours, and dug a great deal all 
under the arches, as it was now most confidently directed, 
and so seriously, and upon pretended good grounds, that I 
myself did truly expect to speed; but we missed of all: 
and so we went away the second time like fools. And- to 
our office; and I, by appointment, to the Dolphin Taverne, 
to meet Wade and the other, Captain Evett, who now do 
tell me plainly, that he that do put him upon this is one 
that had it from Barkstead’s own mouth, and was advised 


CS ee — 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS B45 


with by him, just before the King’s coming in, how to get 
it out, and had all the signs told him how and where it lay, 
and had always been the great confident of Barkestead, 
even to the trusting him with his life and all he had. So 
that he did much convince me that there is good ground 
for what he goes about. But I fear it may be that Barke- 
stead did find some conveyance of it away, without the help 
of this man, before he died; but he is resolved to go to the 
party once more, and then to determine what we shall do 
further. 

2d. (Lord’s day.) Talking with my wife, in whom I 
never had greater content, blessed be God! than now— 
she continuing with the same care and thrift and in- 
nocence, so long as I keep her from occasions of being other- 
wise, as ever she was in her life, and keeps the house as 
well. To church, where Mr. Mills preached a very ordinary 
sermon. 

3d. To White Hall, to the Duke’s; but found him gone 
a-hunting. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, from whom I 
receive every day more and more signs of his confidence and 
esteem of me. Here I met with Pierce, the chyrurgeon, 
who tells me that my Lady Castlemaine is with child; but 
though it be the King’s, yet her Lord being still in town, 
and sometimes seeing of her, though never to eat together 
or cohabit, it will be laid to him. He tells me also how the 
Duke of York is smitten in love with my Lady Chester- 
field,‘ (a virtuous lady, daughter to my Lord of Ormond) ; 
and so much, that the Duchess of York hath complained to 
the King and her father about, and my Lady Chesterfield is 
gone into the country for it. At all which I am sorry; 
but it is the effect of idlenesse, and having nothing else 
to employ their great spirits upon. At night to my office, 
and did business; and there come to me Mr. Wade and 
Evett, who have been again with their prime intelligencer, 
a woman, I perceive: and though we have missed twice, 
yet they bring such an account of the probability of the 
truth of the thing, though we are not certain of the place, 


1QLady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, first Duke of 
Ormond, wife of Philip Stanhope, Second Earl of Chesterfield. Ob. 
1665. See Mémoires de Grammont, 


346 DIARY OF [7th Nov. 


that we shall set upon it once more; and I am willing and 
hopefull in it. So we resolved to set upon it again on Wed- 
nesday morning; and the woman herself will be there in a 
disguise, and confirm us in the place. 

4th. This morning, we had news by letters that Sir Rich- 
ard Stayner is dead at sea in the Mary, which is now come 
into Portsmouth from Lisbon; which we are sorry for, he 
being a very stout seaman. 

5th. My Lady Batten did send to speak with me, and 
told me very civilly that she did not desire, nor hoped I did, 
that anything should pass between us but what was civill, 
though there was not the neighbourliness between her and 
my wife that was fit to be, and so complained of my maid’s 
mocking of her. When she called “* Nan” to her maid 
within her own house, my maid Jane in the garden over- 
heard her, and mocked her, and of my wife’s speaking 
unhandsomely of her, to all which I did give her a very 
respectfull answer, such as did please her, and am sorry 
indeed that this should be, though I do not desire there 
should be any acquaintance between my wife and her. But 
I promised to avoid such words and passages for the future. 
At night I called up my maids, and schooled Jane, who 
did answer me so humbly and drolly about it, that, though 
I seemed angry, I was much pleased with her and [my] 
wife also. 

“th. Being by appointment called upon by Mr. Lee, he 
and I to the Tower, to make our third attempt upon the 
cellar. And now privately the woman, Barkestead’s great 
confident, is brought, who do positively say that this is the 
place which he did say the money was hid in, and where he 
and she did put up the 7000l. in butter-firkins; and the 
very day that he went out of England did say that neither 
he nor his would be the better for that money, and there- 
fore wishing that she and hers might. And so left us, and 
we full of hope did resolve to dig all over the cellar, which 
by seven o’clock at night we performed. At noon we sent 
for a dinner, and upon the head of a barrel dined very 
merrily, and to work again. But at last we saw we were 
mistaken; and, after digging the cellar quite through, and 
removing the barrels from one side to the other, we were 


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forced to pay our porters, and give over our expectations, 
though I do believe there must be money hid somewhere 
by him, or else he did delude this woman in hopes to 
oblige her to further serving him, which I am apt to 
believe. By coach to White Hall, and at my Lord’s lodg- 
ings, hearing that Mrs. Sarah is married, I did joy her and 
kiss her, she owning of it; and it seems it is to a cooke. 
I am glad she is disposel of, for she grows old and is very 
painfull, and one I have reason to wish well for her old sery- 
ice to me. 

9th. (Lord’s day.) Walked to my brother’s, where my 
wife is, calling at many churches, and then to the Temple, 
hearing a bit there too, and observing that in the streets 
and churches the Sunday is kept in appearance as well as I 
have known it at any time. After dinner to see Mr. Moore, 
who is pretty well, and he and I to St. Gregory’s, where I 
escaped a great fall down the stairs of the gallery: so into 
a pew there, and heard Dr. Ball’ make a very good sermon, 
though short of what I expected. 

10th. A little to the office, and so with Sir J. Minnes, Sir 
W. Batten, and myself by coach to White Hall, to the 
Duke, who, after he was ready, did take us into his closett. 
Thither come my Lord General Monck, and did privately 
talk with the Duke about having the life-guards pass through 
the City to-day only for show and to fright people, for I 
perceive there are great fears abroad; for all which I am 
troubled and full of doubt that things will not go well. He 
being gone, we fell to the business of the Navy. Among 
other things, how to pay off this fleet that is now come from 
Portugall; the King of Portugall sending them home, he 
having no more use for them, which we wonder at, that his 
condition should be so soon altered: and our landmen also 
are coming back, being almost starved in that poor country. 
To Westminster Hall, where full of terme, and here my 
cozen Roger Pepys, who is all for a composition with my 
uncle Thomas. Tio my Lord Crewe’s, and dined with him 
and his brother—I know not his name: where very good 
discourse: among others, of France’s intention to make a 


1Dr. Ball was then rector of St. Mary Woolchurch, and in 1665 
Master of the Temple. 


348 DIARY OF [10th Nov. 


patriarch of his own, independent from the Pope, by which 
he will be able to cope with the Spaniard in all councils, 
which hitherto he has never done. My Lord Crewe told 
us how he heard my Lord of Holland* say, that being Em- 
bassador about the match with the Queen-Mother that now 
is, the King of France’ insisted upon a dispensation from 
the Pope, which my Lord Holland, making a question of, as 
he was commanded to yield to nothing to the prejudice of 
our religion, says the King of France, ‘“ You need not fear 
that, for if the Pope will not dispense with the match my 
Bishop of Paris shall.” By and by come in the great Mr. 
Swinfen,’ the Parliament-man, who among other discourse 
of the rise and fall of famylys, told us of Bishop Bridgeman,* 
father of Sir Orlando, who lately hath bought a seat an- 
ciently of the Levers, and then the Ashtons;’ and so he 
hath in his great hall window, having repaired and beautified 
the house, caused four great places to be left for coates of 
armes. In one he hath put the Levers, with this motto, 
* Olim.” In another, the Ashtons, with this, “ Heri.”? In 
the next his own, with this, “ Hodie.” In the fourth, no- 
thing but this motto, “ Cras nescio cujus.”” Taking my wife 
up, carried her to Charing Crosse, and there showed her the 
Italian motion, much after the nature of what I showed her 
a while since in Covent Garden. Their puppets here are 
somewhat better, but their motions not at all. The town, I 
hear, is full of discontents, and all know of the King’s 
new bastard by Mrs. Haslerigge,® and, as far as I can hear, 
will never be contented with Episcopacy, they are so cruelly 


1Henry Rich, second son of Robert, first Earl of Warwick. He 
had been created Lord Kensington before the embassy here alluded to, 
and was afterwards advanced to the Earldom of Holland, September 
24th, 1624. He was beheaded by the Parliament in 1649. 

2Louis XIII., in 1624. 

3 John Swinfen, M.P. for Tamworth. 

‘John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, ancestor of the present Earl of 
Bradford. Great Levers, the seat alluded to, must probably have been 
bought by Sir Orlando Bridgeman, or some other member of the 
family, not by the Bishop, as he died in 1652. Pepys seems to speak 
of a person then living. See ante, Oct. 10, 1660. 

5 Ashton Hall, in Lancashire. 

®©See 17th October, 1662, ante. 


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set for Presbytery; and the Bishops carry themselves 
so high, that they are never likely to gain any thing upon 
them. 

12th. By my wife’s appointment come two young ladies,' 
sisters, acquaintances of my wife’s brothers, who are de- 
sirous to wait upon some ladies, and who proffer their ser- 
vice to my wife. The youngest indeed hath a good voice, 
and sings very well, besides other good qualitys, but I fear 
hath been bred up with too great libertys for my family, 
and I fear greater inconveniences of expences, and my wife’s 
liberty will follow, which I must study to avoid till I have a 
better purse ; though, I confess, the gentlewoman, being pretty 
handsome and singing, makes me have a good mind to her. 
To the Dolphin Tavern, near home, by appointment, and 
there met with Wade and Evett, and have resolved to make 
a new attempt upon another discovery, in which God give 
us better fortune than in the other; but I have great confi- 
dence that there is no cheat in these people, but that they 
go upon good grounds, though they have been mistaken in 
the place from the first. 

13th. To my office, and there this afternoon we had our 
first meeting upon our commission of inspecting the Chest: 
Sir Frances Clerke,?> Mr. Heath, Atturney of the Dutchy, 
Mr. Prinn, Sir W. Rider, Captain Cooke, and myself. Our 
first work was to read over the Institution, which is a de- 
cree in Chancery in the year 1617, upon an inquisition made 
at Rochester about that time into the revenues of the Chest, 
which had then, from the year 1588 or 1590, by the advice 
of the Lord High Admiral and principal officers then being, 
by consent of the seamen, been settled, paying six-pence per 
month, according to their wages then, which was then but 
10s., which is now 24s. 


1The two Gosnells. 

?The Chest at Chatham was originally planned by Sir Francis Drake 
and Sir John Hawkins in 1588, after the defeat of the Armada; the 
seamen voluntarily agreed to have “defalked” out their wages certain 
sums to form a fund for relief. The property became considerable, as 
well as the abuses, and in 1802 the Chest was removed to Greenwich. 
In 1817, the stock amounted to 300,000/. Consols.—Hist. of Rochester, 
p. 346. See also Diary, June 2d, 1662. 

*M.P. for Rochester, and knighted there by Charles II., May 28th, 
1660. 


350 DIARY OF [21st Nov. 


17th. To the Duke’s today, but he is gone a-hunting. 
After dinner, talking with my wife, and making Mrs. Gosnell 
sing; and then, there being no coach to be got, by water 
to White Hall; but Gosnell, not being willing to go 
through bridge, we were forced to land and take water 
again, and put her and her sister ashore at the Temple. 
I am mightily pleased with her humour and _ singing. 
At White Hall by appointment; Mr. Creed carried my 
wife and I to the Cock-pitt, and we had. excellent places; 
and saw the King, Queen, Duke of Monmouth,” his son, 
and my Lady Castlemaine, and all the fine ladies; and 
“The Scornfull Lady ” well performed. They had done by 
eleven o’clock; and it being fine moonshine, we took coach 
and home, but could wake nobody at my house, and so 
were fain to have my boy get through one of the windows, 
and so opened the door, and called up the maids, and went 
to supper. 

18th. Late at my office, drawing up a letter to my Lord 
Treasurer, which we have been long about. 

20th. After dinner to the Temple, to Mr. Thurland;’ and 
thence to my Lord Chief Baron, Sir Edward Hale’s,* and 
take with me Mr. Thurland to his chamber, where he told 
us that Field will have the better of us; and that we must 
study to make up the business as well as we can, which do 
much vex and trouble us; but I am glad the Duke is con- 
cerned in it. 

21st. Within all day long, helping to put up my hangings 
in my house in my wife’s chamber, to my great content. To 
speak to Sir J. Minnes at his lodgings, where I found many 
great ladies, and his lodgings made very fine indeed. To 
bed this night, having first put up a spitting-sheet, which I 
find very convenient. This day come the King’s pleasure- 
boats from Calais with the Dunkirke money, being 400,000 
pistolles. 


1This entry seems to have been corrected by Pepys at a later time, 
for Monmouth was not created a Duke till 14th Feb., 1662-3. 

?Edward Thurland, M.P. for Reigate, afterwards knighted, and a 
Baron of the Exchequer. 

’Sir Orlando Bridgeman, noticed Oct. 10, 1660, was then Chief 
Baron of the Exchequer, and was succeeded, in 1666, by Matthew Hale, 
sergeant-at-law; there is, consequently, some mistake. 


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22d. This day I bought the book of country dances 
against my wife’s woman Gosnell comes, who dances finely ; 
and there, meeting Mr. Playford,’ he did give me _ his 
Latin songs of Mr. Deering’s,” which he lately printed. 
This day, Mr. Moore told me, that for certain the Queen- 
Mother is married to my Lord of St. Alban’s, and he is 
like to be made Lord-Treasurer. News that Sir J. Lawson 
hath made up a peace now with Tunis and Tripoli, as 
well as Algiers, by which he will come home very highly 
honoured. 

23d. (Lord’s day.) To church, and heard drowsy Mr. 
Graves. To Sir W. Batten’s, and heard how Sir R. Ford’s 
daughter is married to a fellow without friends’ consent, 
and the match carried on and made up at Will Griffin’s, our 
doorkeeper’s. I talked to my brother to-day, who desires 
me to give him leave to look after his mistress still; and he 
will not have me put to any trouble or obligation in it, which 
I did give him leave to do. I hear to-day old rich Audley’* 
is lately dead, and left a very great estate, and made a great 
many poor familys rich, not all to one. Among others, one 
Davis,* my old schoolfellow at Paul’s, and since a bookseller 
in Paul’s Church Yard; and it seems do forgive one man 
60001., which he had wronged him of, but names not his 
name; but it is well known to be the scrivener in Fleet 
Street, at whose house he lodged. There is also this week 
dead a poulterer, in Gracious Street, which was thought rich, 
but not so rich, that hath left 800]. per annum, taken in 
other men’s names, and 40,000 Jacobs in gold. 

24th. Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and I, going forth 


1 John Playford, a seller of musical instruments and books, near the 
Temple church. His portrait is in Burney’s Hist. of Music. 


*There is a copy of Dering’s Latin songs in the British Museum, 
entitled “Cantica Sacra ad duas et tres voces composita.” London, 
1662, folio. 


* There is an old tract called “'The way to be Rich, according to the 
Practice of the great Audley, who began with 200/. in 1605, and dyed 
worth 400,000/., November, 1662.” London, printed for E. Davies, 
1662. 


*1652, Dec. 24, “Died John Daves, Old Jewry, broaker, a prisoner 
buried in St. Olave’s, Old Jewry: his son, Tho. Daves, a bookseller, 
was afterwards an alderman and Lord Mayor of London, enriched by 
the legacy of Hugh Audley.”—Smith’s Obituary, p. 33. 


352 DIARY OF [27th Noy. 


toward White Hall, we hear that the King and Duke are 
come this morning to the Tower to see the Dunkirke money. 
So we by coach to them, and there went up and down all the 
magazines with them; but methought it was but a poor dis- 
course and frothy that the King’s companions, young Killi- 
grew among the rest, had with him. We saw none of the 
money; but Mr. Slingsby’ did show the King, and I did 
see, the stamps of the new money that is now to be made by 
Blondeau’s fashion, which are very neat, and like the King. 
Thence the King to Woolwich, though a very cold day; and 
the Duke to White Hall, commanding us to come after him; 
and in his closet, my Lord Sandwich being there, did dis- 
course with us about getting some of this money to pay off 
the Fleets and other matters. By coach, my cozen Thomas 
Pepys going along with me, homeward. I set him down 
by the way; but, Lord! how he did endeavour to find 
out a ninepence to club with me for the coach, and for 
want was forced to give me a shilling, and how he still cries 
* Gad!” and talks of Popery coming in, as all the Fana- 
tiques do. 

25th. Great talk among people how some of the Fana- 
tiques do say that the end of the world is at hand, and that 
next Tuesday is to be the day. Against which, whenever it 
shall be, good God fit us all! 

27th. At my waking, I found the tops of the houses 
covered with snow, which is a rare sight, which I have not 
seen these three years. To the office, where we sat till 
noon; when we all went to the next house upon Tower 
Hill, to see the coming by of the Russia Embassador; for 
whose reception all the City trained bands do attend in the 
streets, and the King’s life-guards, and most of the wealthy 
citizens in their black velvet coats, and gold chains, which 
remain of their gallantry at the King’s coming in, but they 
staid so long that we went down again to dinner. And after 
I had dined, I walked to the Conduit in the Quarrefowr,* 
at the end of Gracious Street and Cornhill; and there, the 
spouts thereof running very near me upon all the people 
that were under it, I saw them pretty well go by. I could 


1Henry Slingsby, Master of the Mint. 
* Carrefour, or Quatre-V oies, whence Carfax at Oxford. 


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not see the Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in 
their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men, and 
most of them with hawkes upon their fists to present to the 
King. But, Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, 
that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that 
looks strange. 

28th. A very hard frost; which is news to us after having 
none almost these three years. By ten o’clock to Iron- 
mongers’ Hall, to the funeral of Sir Richard Stayner.* Here 
we were, all the officers of the Navy, and my Lord Sand- 
wich, who did discourse with us about the fishery, telling us 
of his Majesty’s resolution to give 2001. to every man that 
will set out a Busse;* and advising about the effects of this 
encouragement, which will be a very great matter certainly. 
Here we had good rings, and by and by were to take coach; 
and I, being got in with Mr. Creed into a four-horse 
coach, which they come and told us were only for the 
mourners, I went out, and so took this occasion to go 
home. 

29th. To the office; and this morning come Sir G. Carteret 
to us, being the first time since his coming from France; he 
tells us that the silver which is received for Dunkirke did 
weigh 120,000 weight. To my Lord’s, where my Lord and 
Mr. Coventry, Sir William Darcy,*® one Mr. Parham, a very 
knowing and well-spoken man in this business, with several 
others, did meet about stating the business of the fishery, 
and the manner of the King’s giving of this 2001. to every 
man that shall set out a new-made English Busse by the 


-middle of June next. In which business we had many fine 


pretty discourses; and I did here see the great pleasure to 
be had in discoursing of publick matters with men that are 
particularly acquainted with this or that business. Having 
come to some issue, wherein a motion of mine was well re- 
ceived, about sending these invitations from the King to all 
the fishing-ports in general, with limiting so many Busses 
to this and that port, before we know the readiness of sub- 
scribers, we parted. I walked home all the way, in my 


1He was buried at Greenwich, 28th Nov. 1662. 

7A small sea-vessel used by the Hollanders for the herring-fishery. 
® Third son of Sir Conyers Darcy. 

VOL. I. AA 


354 DIARY OF [30th Nov. 


way calling upon my cozen Turner and Mr. Calthrop at the 
Temple, for their consent to be my arbitrators, which they 
are willing to. My wife and I pretty pleasant, for that her 
brother brings word that Gosnell, which my wife and I in 
discourse do pleasantly call cur Marmotte, will certainly 
come next week, without fail, which God grant may be for 
the best. 

30th. (Lord’s day.) In the afternoon to the French 
church here in the city, and stood in the aisle all the sermon, 
with great delight hearing a very admirable sermon from a 
young man, upon that article in our creed, in order of. 
catechisme, upon resurrection. To visit Sir W. Pen, who 
continues still bed-rid. Here was Sir W. Batten, and his 
lady, and Mrs. Turner, and I very merry, talking of the confi- 
dence of Sir R. Ford’s new-married daughter, though she 
married so strangely lately; yet appears at church as briske 
as can be, and takes place of her elder sister, a maid. To 
make up my monthly accounts, and I do find that, through 
the fitting of my house this month, I have spent in that and 
kitchen 501. this month; so that now I am worth but 6601., 
or thereabouts. This day I first did weare a muffe, being 
my wife’s last year’s muffe; and now I have bought her a 
new one, this serves me very well. Thus ends this month; 
in great frost: myself and family all well, but my mind 
much disordered about my uncle’s law business, bemg now 
in an order of being arbitrated between us, which I wish to 
God it were done. I am also somewhat uncertain what to 
think of my going about to take a woman-servant into my 
house, in the quality of a woman for my wife. My wife 
promises it shall cost me nothing but her meat and wages, 
and that it shall not be attended with any other expences, 
upon which termes I admit of it; for that it will, I hope, 
save me money in having my wife go abroad on visits and 
other delights; so that I hope the best, but am resolved to 
alter it if matters prove otherwise than I would have them. 
Publick matters in an ill condition of discontent against 
the height and vanity of the Court, and their bad pay- 
ments; but that which troubles most is the Clergy, which 
will never content the city, which is not to be reconciled to 
Bishopps; but more the pity that differences must still be. 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 355 


Dunkirke newly sold, and the money brought over; of 
which we hope to get some to pay the Navy; which, by Sir 
J. Lawson’s having despatched the business in the Straights, 
by making peace with Algiers, Tunis, and ‘Tripoli, and so 
his fleet will also shortly come home, will now every day 
grow less, and so the King’s charge be abated; which God 
send! 

December 1st. To my Lord Sandwich’s, to Mr. Moore; 
and then over the Parke, where I first in my life, it being a 
great frost, did see people sliding with their skeates,’ which 
is a very pretty art, to Mr. Coventry’s chamber to St. 
James’s, where we all met to a venison pasty, Major Nor- 
wood being with us, whom they did play upon for his 
surrendering ot Dunkirke. Here we staid till three or 
four o’clock; and so to the Council Chamber, where there 
met the Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Albe- 
marle, my Lord Sandwich, Sir William Compton, Mr. 
Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Ryder, 
myself, and Captain Cuttance, as Commissioners for 'Tan- 
gier. And after our Commission was read by Mr. Creed, 
who, I perceive, is to be our secretary, we did fall to 
discourse of matters: as, first, the supplying them forth- 
with with victualls: then the reducing it to make way 
for the money, which upon their reduction is to go to 
the building of the Mole; and so to other matters, 
ordered against next meeting. This done, we broke up, 
and I to the Cockpitt, with much crowding and waiting, 
where I saw “ The Valiant Cidd”? acted—a play I have 
read with great delight, but is a most dull thing acted, 
which I never understood before, there being no pleasure 
in it, though done by Betterton, and by Ianthe, and 
another fine wench that is come in the room of Rox- 
alana;® nor did the King or Queen once smile all the 
whole play, nor any of the whole company seem to take 


1Skaiting was introduced by the Cavaliers who had been with Charles 
II. in Holland. 

?Translated from the well-known Cid of Corneille. 

® Elizabeth Davenport appears to have left the stage, Pepys always 
afterwards speaking of the new Rozxalana, whom he once calls Mrs. 
Norton. See ante, Feb. 18, 1661-2, and note. 


356 DIARY OF [7th Dee, 


any pleasure, but what was in the greatness and gallantry 
of the company. 

3d. To Deptford; and so by water with Mr. Pett home 
again, all the way reading his Chest accounts, in which I 
did see things which did not please me; as his allowing 
himself 3001. for one year’s looking to the business of 
the Chest, and 150]. per annum for the rest of the years. 
But I found no fault to him himself, but shall when they 
come to be read at the Board. We walked to the Temple, 
in our way seeing one of the Russia Embassador’s coaches 
go along, with his footmen not in liverys, but their country 
habits; one of one colour and another of another, which was 
very strange. 

5th. I walked towards Guildhall, being summoned by 
the Commissioners for the Lieutenancy: but they sat not 
this morning. So, meeting in my way W. Swan, I took 
him to a house thereabouts, and give him a morning 
draught of buttered ale; he telling me much of his Fana- 
tique stories, as if he were a great zealot, when I know 
him to be a very rogue. But I do it for discourse, and 
to see how things stand with him and his party, who, I 
perceive, have great expectation that God will not bless 
the Court nor Church, as it is now settled, but they must 
be purified. The worst news he tells me is, that Mr. 
Chetwind is dead, my old and most ingenious acquaintance. 
He is dead, worth 80001., which I did not expect, he 
living so high as he did always, and neatly. He hath given 
W. Symons his wife 3001., and made Will one of his exec- 
utors. Home, and there I find Gosnell come, who, my 
wife tells me, is like to prove a pretty companion, of which 
I am glad, and who sings exceeding well, and I shall take 
great delight in her. 

7th. (Lord’s day.) To church this morning with my wife, 
which is the first time she hath been at church since her 


oing to Brampton, and Gosnell attending her, which was - 
g ’ g 3 


very gracefull. I thought to go to the French church; 
but finding the Dutch congregation there, and then find- 
ing the French congregation’s sermon begun in the Dutch, 
I returned home, and up to our gallery, where I found 
my wife and Gosnell; and after a drowsy sermon, we 


1662] SAMUEL PEPYS 857, 


all three to my aunt Wight’s, where great store of her 
usuall company, and here we staid a pretty good while 
talking—I differing from my aunt, as 1 commonly do, in 
our opinion of the handsomeness of the Queen, which I 
oppose mightily, saying, that if my nose be handsome, then 
is hers, and such like: and so with my wife only to see Sir 
W. Pen, who is now got out of his bed, and sits by the 
fireside. 

8th. Into the Parke, to see them slide with their skeates, 
which is very pretty. To the Duke’s, where the Committee 
for Tangier met: and here we set down all with him at a 
table, and had much discourse about the business. Home 
by coach, where I find my wife troubled about Gosnell, 
who brings word that her uncle, Justice Jiggins, re- 
quires her to come three times a week to him, to follow 
some business that her mother intrusts her withall, and 
that, unless she may have that leisure given her, he will 
not have her take any place; but there is no help for, 
it: I am somewhat contented therewith, and shall make 
my wife so, who, poor wretch, I know will consider of 
things. 

9th. All the morning in hopes to have Mr. Coventry 
dine with me. He was forced to go to White Hall. Anon 
went Gosnell away, which did trouble me too; though, upon 
many considerations, it is better that I am rid of the charge. 
All together makes my house appear very lonely. My wife 
and I melancholy to bed. 

10th. To the office with Sir J. Minnes, in his coach; 
but so great a snow’ that we could hardly pass the 
streets. Then to the Dolphin, where Sir J. Minnes, Sir 
W. Batten, and I, did treat the Auditors of the Exchequer 
—Auditors Wood and Beale—and hither come Sir G. Car- 
teret to us. We had a good dinner cost us 51 and 6s., 
whereof my share 26s., and after dinner did discourse of 
our salarys and other matters, which I think now they will 
allow. 

11th. Mr. Creed dined with me, and we sat all the after- 
noon together, discoursing of ways to get money, which I 
am now giving myself wholly up to. 

12th. When I wake, I find a very great thaw, and my 
house overflown with it, which vexed me. 


358 DIARY OF [15th Dec. 


13th. We sat, Mr. Coventry and I, Sir G. Carteret 
being gone; and among other things, Field and Stint did 
come, and received the 41/. given him by the judgment 
against me and Harry Kem;' and we did also sign bonds 
in 5001. to stand to the award of Mr. Porter and Smith 
for the rest; which, however, I did not sign to till I got 
Mr. Coventry to go up with me to Sir W. Pen; and he 
did promise me before him to bear his share in what should 
be awarded, and both concluded that Sir W. Batten would 
do no less. 

14th. (Lord’s day.) To the King’s chappell, where I 
heard the service, and so to my Lord’s, and there Mr. 
Howe and Pagett, the counsellor, an old lover of musique. 
We sang some Psalms of Mr. Lawes, and played some 
symphonys between, till night, that I was sent for to my 
Lord, with whom I staid talking about his, and my 
own, and the publick affairs, with great content, he ad- 
. visng me as to my own choosing of Sir R. Bernard for 
umpire in the businesses between .my uncle and_ us, 
that I would not trust to him upon his direction, for he 
did not think him a man to be trusted at all; and so bid 
him good night, and to Mr. Creed’s; Mr. Moore, with whom 
I intended to have lain, lying physically without sheets; 
and there, after some discourse, to bed, and lay ill, though 
the bed good, my stomach being sick all night with my too 
heavy supper. 

15th. To the Duke, and followed him into the Park, 
where, though the ice was broken and dangerous, yet he 
would go slide upon his skeates, which I did not like, but 
he slides very well. So back to his closet, whither my Lord 
Sandwich comes, and there Mr. Coventry and we three had 
long discourse about the matters of the Navy; and, indeed, 
I find myself more and more obliged to Mr. Coventry, who 
studies to do me all the right he can in every thing to the 
Duke. Thence walked a good while up and down the 
gallerys; and among others, met with Dr. Clerke, who in 
discourse tells me, that Sir Charles Barkeley’s greatness is 
only his being pimp to the King, and to my Lady Castle- 


*In the matter of the false imprisonment: see ante 4th Feb., 1661-2, 
and 21st Oct., 1662. 


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maine. And yet, for all this, that the King is very kind to 
the Queen; who, he says, is one of the best women in the 
world. Strange how the King is bewitched to this pretty 
Castlemaine. I walked up and down the gallerys, spending 
my time upon the pictures, till the Duke and the Com- 
mittee for Tangier met, the Duke not staying with us, 
where the only matter was to discourse with my Lord 
Rutherford, who is this day made Governor of Tangier, 
for I know not what reasons; and my Lord of Peter- 
borough to be called home: which, though it is said it is 
done with kindness, I am sorry to see a Catholicke Governor 
sent to command there, where all the rest of the officers 
almost are such already. But God knows what the reason 
is! and all may see how slippery places all courtiers stand 
in. Thence home, in my way calling upon Sir John Berken- 
heade,* to speak about my assessment of 42/. to the Loval 
Sufferers; which, I perceive, I cannot help; but he tells 
me I have been abused by Sir R. Ford. Thence called at 
the Major-General’s, Sir R. Browne, about my being as- 
sessed armes to the militia; but he was abroad; and so 
driving through the back-side of the shambles in Newgate 
Market, my coach plucked down two pieces of beef into 
the dirt, upon which the butchers stopped the horses, and a 
great rout of people in the street, crying that he had done 
him 40s and 5l. worth of hurt; but, going down, I saw 
that he had done little or none; and so I give them a 
shilling for it, and they were well contented: and so home. 
Lady Batten tells me she hath just now a letter from Sir 


1Andrew Rutherford, son of William Rutherford, of Quarry-holes, 
went young into the French service, and became a lieutenant-general 
of that kingdom. At the Restoration, he brought over an honourable 
testimony from the king of France, and was created a Baron of Scot- 
land, and in 1663 advanced to the Earldom of Teviot, for his manage- 
ment of the sale of Dunkirk, of which he was Governor. He was 
afterwards appointed Governor of Tangier, and was killed by the 
Moors in 1664: dying without issue, his earldom became extinct; but 
the barony of Rutherford descended, according to the patent, to Sir 
Thomas Rutherford, of Hunthill. 


Sir John Berkenhead, F.R.S., a political author, held in some 
esteem, M.P. for Wilton, 1661, and knighted the following year, 
Master of the Faculty Office, and Court of Requests. Ob. 1679. 


360 DIARY OF [20th Dec, 
William, how that he and Sir J. Minnes did very narrowly 


escape drowning on the roade, the waters are so high; but 
is well. But, Lord, what a hypocrite-like face she made to 
tell it me! 

16th. To dinner, thinking to have had Mr. Coventry, but 
he could not go with me; and so I took Captain Murford: 
of whom I do hear what the world says of me; that all do 
conclude Mr. Coventry, and Pett, and me, to be of a knot, 
and that we do now carry all things before us: and much 
more in particular of me, and my studiousness, &c., to my 
great content. ‘To White Hall, to Secretary Bennet’s, and 
agreed with Mr. Lee to set upon our new adventure at the 
Tower to-morrow. 

17th. This morning come Mr. Lee, Wade, and Evett, in- 
tending to have gone upon our new design to the Tower; 
but it raining, and the work being to be done in the open 
garden, we put it off to Friday next. 

18th. Mr. Coventry invited himself to my house to din- 
ner, of which I was proud; but my dinner being a leg of 
mutton and two capons, they were not done enough, which 
did vex me; but we made shift to please him, I think; but 
I, when he was gone, very angry with my wife and people. 

19th. Up and by appointment with Mr. Lee, Wade, 
Evett, and workmen, to the Tower, and with the Lieu- 
tenant’s leave set them to work in the garden, in the corner 
against the mayne-guard, a most unlikely place. It being 
cold, Mr. Lee and I did sit all the day till three o’clock 
by the fire in the Governor’s house; I reading a play of 
Fletcher’s, being ‘** A Wife for a Month,” wherein no great 
wit or language. We went to them at work, and having 
wrought below the bottom of the foundation of the wall, I 
bid them give over, and so all our hopes ended. Home, 
a little displeased with my wife, who, poor wretch, is 
troubled with her lonely life, which I know not how, without 
great charge, to help as yet, but I will study how to do it. 

20th. To the office, and thence with Mr. Coventry in his 
coach to St. James’s, with great content and pride to see 
him treat me so friendly; and dined with him, and so to 
White Hall together: where we met upon the Tangier 
Commission, and discoursed many things thereon: but 


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little will be done before my Lord Rutherford comes there, 
as to the fortifications and Mole. That done, my Lord 
Sandwich and I walked together a good while in the matted 
gallery, he acquainting me with his late enquiries into the 
Wardrobe business to his content; and he tells me how 
things stand. And that the first year was worth about 
80001. to him, and the next about as much; so that, at this 
day, if he were paid, it will be worth about 7000/. to him. 
But it contents me, above all things, to see him trust me 
as his confident: so I bid him good night, he being to go 
into the country, to keep his Christmas, on Monday next. 

Q1st. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall, and there to chapel, 
and from thence up stairs, and up and down the house and 
gallerys on the King’s and Queen’s side, and so through 
the garden to my Lady’s lodgings, where there was Mr. 
Gibbons, Madge, Mallard, and Pagett; and by and by 
comes in my Lord Sandwich, and so we had great store of 
good musique. By and by comes in my simple Lord Chan- 
dois,, who, my Lord Sandwich being gone out to Court, 
began to sing psalms, but so dully that I was weary of 
it. At last we broke up; and by and by comes in my 
Lord Sandwich again, and he and I to talk together about 
his businesses, and so he to bed, and I and Mr. Creed 
and Captain Ferrers fell to a cold goose pye of Mrs. Sarah’s, 
heartily. 

22d. To my Lord’s, who is getting himself ready for his 
journey to Hinchingbroke. I walked to Mr. Coventry’s 
chamber, where I found him gone out into the Park with 
the Duke, so I shifted myself into a riding-habitt, and 
followed him through White Hall, and in the Park Mr. 
Coventry’s people having a horse ready for me, so fine a 
one that I was almost afraid to get upon him, but I did, 
and found myself more feared® than hurt; and followed the 
Duke, who, with some of his people, among others Mr. 
Coventry, was riding out: and with them to Hide Park; 
where Mr. Coventry, asking leave of the Duke, he bid us 
go to Woolwich. So he and I to the water-side, and our 
horses coming by the ferry, we by oars over to Lambeth, 


1 William Brydges, seventh Lord Chandos. Ob. 1676. 
?The vulgarism is still common. 


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and from thence, with brave discourse by the way, rode 
to Woolwich, where we put in practice my new way of 
the Call-booke, which will be of great use. Here we got up 
again, and brought night home with us, and fresh weather. 
Home and presently shifted myself, and so had the barber 
come; and my wife and I to read “ Ovid’s Metamor- 
phoses,” which I brought her home from Paul’s Church- 
yard to-night. 

23rd. To make up my accounts, and find that my or- 
dinary housekeeping comes to 7/1. a month, which is a great 
deal. Dr. Pierce tells me that my Lady Castlemaine’s in- 
terest at Court increases, and is more and greater than the 
Queen’s; that she hath brought in Sir H. Bennet and Sir 
Charles Barkeley; but that the Queen is a most good 
lady, and takes all with the greatest meekness that may 
be. He tells me, also, that Mr. Edward Montagu is 
quite broke at Court with his repute and purse; and that 
he lately was engaged in a quarrell against my Lord 
Chesterfield: but that the King did cause it to be taken 
up. He tells me, too, that the King is much concerned 
in the Chancellor’s sickness, and that the Chancellor is as 
great, he thinks, as ever with the King. He also tells 
me what the world says of me, “that Mr. Coventry and 
I do all the business of the office almost:” at which I am 
highly proud. 

24th. To my bookseller’s, and paid at another shop 
4]. 10s. for Stephens’s * Thesaurus Greece Lingue,”’ given 
to Paul’s Schoole.* To my Lord Crewe’s, and dined alone 
with him. I understand there are great factions at Court, 
and something he said that did imply a difference like to be 
between the King and the Duke, in case the Queen should 
not be with child: I understand, about this bastard.” He 
says, also, that some great man will be aimed at when Par- 
liament comes to sit again; I understand, the Chancellor: 
and that there is a bill will be brought in, that none that 
have been in armes for the Parliament shall be capable of 
office; and that the Court are weary of my Lord Albemarle 
and Chamberlaine.? He wishes that my Lord Sandwich 


1See December 27th, 1661, ante. 
?Shortly afterwards created Duke of Monmouth. 
3 Edward Earl of Manchester. 


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had some good occasion to be abroad this summer which is 
coming on, and that my Lord Hinchingbroke were well 
married, and Sydney’ had some place at Court. He pities 
the poor ministers that are put out, to whom, he says, the 
King is beholden for his coming in, and that if any such 
thing had been foreseen, he had never come in. After this, 
and much other discourse of the sea, and breeding young 
gentlemen to the sea, I went away, and homeward. Met 
Mr. Creed at my bookseller’s, in Paul’s Church-yard, who 
takes it ill my letter last night to Mr. Povy, wherein I 
accuse him of the neglect of the Tangier boats, in which I 
must confess I did not do altogether like a friend; but 
however, it was truth, and I must own it to be so, though I 
fall wholly out with him for it. This evening Mr. Gauden 
sent me, against Christmas, a great chine of beef and three 
dozen of tongues. I did give 5s. to the man that brought 
it, and half a crown to the porters. This day, also, the 
parish-clerk brought the general bills of mortality, which 
cost me half a crown more. 

25th. (Christmas day.) Had a pleasant walk to White 
Hall, where I intended to have received the Communion 
with the family, but I come a little too late. So I walked 
up into the house, and spent my time in looking over pic- 
tures, particularly the ships in King Henry the VIIIth’s 
voyage to Bullaen;? marking the great difference between 
those built then and now. By and by down to the chapel 
again, where Bishop Morley® preached upon the song of 
the Angels, “Glory to God on high, on earth peace, and 


1Lord Sandwich’s second son, who married afterwards Anne, 
daughter and heir of Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley, by whom he was 
father of Edward Wortley Montagu, the husband of the celebrated 
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Their daughter married John Stuart, 
third Earl of Bute, whose second son took the name and estates of 
Wortley, and was father of the first Lord Wharncliffe. 


Boulogne. These pictures were given by George III. to the So- 
ciety of Antiquaries, who in return presented to the King a set of 
Hearne’s works, on large paper. The pictures were reclaimed by 
George IV., and are now at Hampton Court. They have been en- 
graved in the Vetusta Monumenta, published by the Society. The set 
of Hearne’s works is now in the Queen’s Library, in the British Museum. 


*George Morley, Bishop of Winchester, to which See he was trans- 
lated from Worcester, in 1662. Ob. 1684. 


364 DIARY OF [26th Dec. 


good will towards men.” Methought he made but a poor 
sermon, but long, and, reprehending the common jollity of 
the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on 
these days, he particularized concerning their excess in 
playes and gaming, saying that he whose office it is to 
keep the gamesters in order and within bounds, serves but 
for a second rather in a duell, meaning the groome-porter. 
Upon which it was worth observing how far they are come 
from taking the reprehensions of a bishop seriously, that 
they all laugh in the chapel when he reflected on their 
ill actions and courses. He did much press us to joy 
in these public days of joy, and to hospitality; but one 
that stood by whispered in my eare that the Bishop do not 
spend one groate to the poore himself. The sermon done, a 
good anthem followed with vialls, and the King come down 
to receive the Sacrament. But I staid not, but calling 
my boy from my Lord’s lodgings, and giving Sarah some 
good advice by my Lord’s order to be sober, and look after 
the house, I walked home again with great pleasure, and 
there dined by my wife’s bed-side with great content, having 
a mess of brave plum-porridge and a roasted pullet for 
dinner, and I sent for a mince-pie abroad, my wife not being 
well, to make any herself yet. 

26th. To the Wardrobe. Hither come Mr. Battersby; 
and we falling into discourse of a new book of drollery in 
use, called Hudebras, I would needs go find it out, and met 
with it at the Temple: cost me 2s. 6d. But when I come 
to read it, it is so silly an abuse of the Presbyter Knight 
going to the wars, that I am ashamed of it; and by and by 
meeting at Mr. Townsend’s at dinner, I sold it to him 
for 18d. To the Duke’s house, and saw the “ Villaine.” 
Here I was better pleased with the play than I was at first,* 
understanding the design better than I did. Here I saw 
Gosnell and her sister at a distance, and could have found 
in my heart to have accosted them, but thought it not 
prudent. Home, and found my wife busy among her pies. 
We are both displeased for some slight words that Sarah, 


now at Sir W. Pen’s, hath spoke of us, but it is no matter. 


1See 20th October, 1662. 


as ee 


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We shall endeavour to joyne the lyon’s skin to the fox’s 
tail. 

27th. With my wife to the Duke’s Theatre, and saw 
the second part of “Rhodes,” done with the new Roxa- 
lana; which do it rather better in all respects for person, 
voice, and judgment, than the first Roxalana. Not so well 
pleased with the company at the house to-day, which was 
full of citizens—there hardly being a gallant man or woman 
in the house. 

28th. (Lord’s day.) With my wife to church, and coming 
out, went out both before my Lady Batten, he not being 
there, which I believe will vex her. To the French 
church, where I heard an old man make a tedious long 
sermon, till they were fain to light candles to baptize the 
children by. 

29th. To Westminster Hall, where I staid reading at 
Mrs. Mitchell’s shop. She told me what I heard not of 
before, the strange burning of Mr. de Laun, a merchant’s 
house in Loathbury, and his lady, Sir Thomas Allen’s 
daughter, and her whole family; not one thing, dog nor 
cat, escaping;” nor any of the neighbours almost hearing 
of it till the house was quite down and burnt. How 
this should come to pass, God knows, but a most strange 
thing it is. Hither come Jack Spicer, and talked of 
Exchequer matters, and how the Lord Treasurer [South- 
ampton] hath now ordered all monies to be brought into 
the Exchequer, and hath settled the King’s revenues, and 
given to every general expence proper assignments; to 
the Navy 200,000/. and odde. He also told me of the 
great vast trade of the goldsmiths in supplying the King 
with money at dear rates. Thence to White Hall, and 
got up to the top gallerys in the Banquetting House, to 
see the audience of the Russia Embassadors;* which took 


1“The Siege of Rhodes,” mentioned before, July 2, 1661. 

?The seven inmates all perished.—Rugge’s Diurnal. 

’“On Monday last, betwixt two and three in the afternoon, His 
Majesty gave audience to the great Lord Ambassador, the great Duke 
and governor of Toulsky, Peeter, the son of Simon, surnamed Prozo- 
rofskee, to the Lord Governor of Coarmeski, John, the son of Offonas- 
sey, surnamed Zelebousky, and Juan Stephano, Chancellor, &c., Am- 
bassadors from the Emperor of Russia. They passed along from York 


366 DIARY OF [30th Dee. 


place after our long waiting and fear of the falling of the 
gallery, it being so full and part of it being parted from 
the rest, for nobody to come up, merely from the weaknesse 
thereof: and very handsome it was. After they had come 
in, I went down and got through the croude almost as 
high as the King and the Embassadors, where I saw all the 
presents, being rich furs, hawkes, carpets, cloths of tissue, 
and sea-horse teeth. ‘The King took two or three hawkes 
upon his fist, having a glove on, wrought with gold, given 
him for the purpose. The son of one of the Embassadors 
was in the richest suit of pearle and tissue, that ever I did 
see, or shall, I believe. After they and all the company 
had kissed the King’s hand, then the three Embassadors 
and the son, and no more, did kiss the Queen’s. One thing 
more I did observe, that the chief Embassador did carry up 
his master’s letters in state before him on high: and as 
soon as he had delivered them, he did fall down to the 
ground, and lay there a great while. After all was done, 
the company broke up; and I spent a little while walking 
up and down the gallery seeing the ladies, the two Queens, 
and the Duke of Monmouth’ with his little mistress,” 
which is very little, and like my brother-in-law’s wife. Sat 
late talking with my wife, about our entertaining Dr. 
Clerke’s lady and Mrs. Pierce shortly, being in great pain 
that my wife hath never a winter gown, being almost 
ashamed of it that she should be seen in a taffata one, 
when all the world wears moyre;’ but we could not come 
to any resolution what to do therein, other than to appear 
as she is. 

30th. Visited Mrs. Ferrers, and staid talking with her a 
good while, there being a little, proud, ugly, talking lady 
there, that was much crying up the Queen-Mother’s Court 
at Somerset House above our own Qucen’s; there being be- 


House to White Hall through his Majesties guards who stood on both 
sides of the street, and made a lane for their more orderly procession.” 
—Mercurius Publicus, Jan. 1, 1662-3. 

1The Duke of Monmouth is here spoken of by anticipation, or else 
Pepys has corrected the entry at a later time. He was not created 
Duke until 14th Feb., 1662-3. 

*Lady Anne Scot. 

> By moure is meant mohair. See the note on ferrandin, Jan. 28th, 
1662-3. 


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fore her no allowance of laughing and the mirth that is at 
the other’s; and indeed it is observed that the greatest 
Court now-a-days is there. ‘Thence to White Hall, where 
I carried my wife to see the Queen in her presence-chamber ; 
and the maydes of honour and the young Duke of Mon- 
mouth playing at cards. Some of them, and but a few, 
were very pretty; though all well dressed in velvet gowns. 
Thence to my Lord’s lodgings, where Mrs. Sarah did make 
us my Lord’s bed. 

31st. William Bowyer tells me how the difference comes 
between his fair cozen Butler and Colonel Dillon, upon his 
opening letters of her brother’s from Ireland, complaining 
of his knavery, and forging others to the contrary; and so 
they are long ago quite broke off. Mr. Povy and I to 
White Hall; he taking me thither on purpose to carry me 
into the ball this night before the King. He brought me 
first to the Duke’s chamber, where I saw him and the 
Duchess at supper; and thence into the room where the 
ball was to be, crammed with fine ladies, the greatest of the 
Court. By and by, comes the King and Queen, the Duke 
and Duchess, and all the great ones; and after seating 
themselves, the King takes out the Duchess of York; and 
the Duke, the Duchess of Buckingham; the Duke of Mon- 
mouth, my Lady Castlemaine; and so other lords other 
ladies: and they danced the Brantle.* After that the King 
led a lady a single Coranto; and then the rest of the lords, 
one after another, other ladies: very noble it was, and great 
pleasure to see. Then to country dances; the King leading 
the first, which he called for, which was, says he, ** Cuckolds 
all awry,” the old dance of England. Of the ladies that 
danced, the Duke of Monmouth’s mistress, and my Lady 


Castlemaine, and a daughter of Sir Harry de Vicke’s,’ were 


1Branle. Espéce de danse de plusieurs personnes, qui se tiennent 
par la main, et qui se menent tour-a-tour.—Dictionnaire de Académie. 

?The tune of “Cuckolds all awry” may be seen in Chappell’s Col- 
lection. 

*Sir Henry de Vic, of Guernsey, Bart., had been twenty years Resi- 
dent for Charles II. at Brussells, and was Chancellor of the Order of 
‘the Garter, and in 1662 became Comptrollor of the Duke of York’s 
Household, with a salary of 400/. He died in 1672, and was buried 
in Westminster Abbey. His only daughter, Anna Charlotta, married 
John Lord Frescheville, Baron of Stavely, in Derbyshire. 


368 DIARY OF [81st Dec. 


the best. 'The manner was, when the King dances, all the 
ladies in the room, and the Queen herself, stand up: and 
indeed he dances rarely, and much better than the Duke 
of York. Having staid here as long as I thought fit, 
to my infinite content, it being the greatest pleasure I 
could wish now to see at Court, I went home, leaving them 
dancing. 

Thus ends this year, with great mirth to me and my wife. 
Our condition being thus:—we are at present spending a 
night or two at my Lord’s lodgings at White Hall. Our 
home at the Navy Office, which is and hath a pretty while 
been in good condition, finished and made very convenient. 
By my last year’s diligence in my office, blessed be God! 
I am come to a good degree of knowledge therein; and am 
acknowledged so by all the world, even the Duke himself, to 
whom I have a good access: and by that, and by my being 
Commissioner for Tangier, he takes much notice of me; and 
I doubt not but, by the continuance of the same endeavours, 
I shall in a little time come to be a man much taken notice 
of in the world, specially being come to so great an esteem 
with Mr. Coventry. Publick matters stand thus: The 
King is bringing, it is said, his family, and Navy, and all 
other his charges, to a less expence. In the mean time, 
himself following his pleasures more than with good advice 
he would do; at least, to be seen to all the world to do so. 
His dalliance with my Lady Castlemaine being publick, 
every day, to his great reproach; and his favouring of none 
at Court so much as those that are the confidants of his 
pleasure, as Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley ; which, 
good God, put it into his heart to mend before he makes 
himself too much contemned by his people for it! The 
Duke of Monmouth is in so great splendour at Court, and 
so dandled by the King, that some doubt that, if the King 
should have no child by the Queen, which there is yet no 
appearance of, whether he would not be acknowledged for a 
lawful son; and that there will be a difference follow be- 
tween the Duke of York and him; which God prevent! 
My Lord Chancellor is threatened by people to be ques- 
tioned, the next sitting of the Parliament, by some spirits 
that do not love to see him so great; but certainly he is a 
good servant to the King. The Queen-Mother is said to 


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keep too great a Court now; and her being married to my 
Lord St. Albans is commonly talked of; and that they had 
a daughter between them in France; how true, God knows. 
The Bishops are high, and go on without any diffidence in 
pressing uniformity; and the Presbyters seem silent in it, 
and either conform or lay down, though without doubt they 
expect a turn, and would be glad these endeavours of the 
other Fanatiques would take effect; there having been a 
plot lately found out, for which four have been publickly 
tried at the Old Bayley and hanged. My Lord Sandwich 
is still in good esteem, and now keeping his Christmas in 
the country; and I in good esteem, I think, as any man 
can be, with him. Mr. Moore is very sickly, and I doubt 
will hardly get over his late fit of sickness, that still hangs 
on him. Im fine, for the good condition of myself, wife, 
family, and estate, in the great degree that it is, and for the 
public state of the nation, so quiet as it is, the Lord God 
be praised ! 


1662-63. 


January 1st. To White Hall, where I spent a little time 
walking among the courtiers, which I perceive I shall be 
able to do with great confidence, being now beginning to be 
pretty well known among them. Among other discourse, 
Mrs. Sarah tells us how the King sups at least four times 
every week with my Lady Castlemaine; and most often 
stays till the morning with her, and goes home through the 
garden all alone privately, and that so as the very sentrys 
take notice of it and speak of it; and that about a month 
ago Lady Castlemaine quickened at my Lord Gerard’s* at 
dinner, and cried out that she was undone; and all the lords 


1Charles Gerard, created Baron Gerard of Brandon, November §, 
1645, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II., and captain of his 
Guards; advanced to the Earldom of Macclesfield 1679, and died about 
1693. His wife, mentioned afterwards, was a French lady, whose name 
has not been preserved; but she bore him two sons, with the youngest 
of whom, Fytton, the third Earl, the honours expired, in 1702. Mac- 
clesfield House, then Lord Gerard’s residence, was in Soho. The names 
are preserved in Macclesfield Street and Gerard Street. 


VOL. I. BB 


370 DIARY OF [5th Jan. 


and men were fain to quit the room, and women called to 
help her. In fine, I find that there is nothing almost but 
wonder at Court from top to bottom, as, if it were fit, I 
could instance, but it is not necessary; only they say that 
my Lord Chesterfield, Groom of the Stole to the Queen, is 
either gone or put away from Court upon the score of his 
lady’s having smitten the Duke of York, so as that he is 
watched by the Duchess of York, and the lady is retired 
into the country upon it. How much of this is true, God 
knows, but it is common talk. After dinner, to the Duke’s 
house, where we saw “ The Villaine” againe; and the more 
I see it, the more I am offended at my first undervaluing 
the play, it being very good and pleasant, and yet a true and 
allowable tragedy. The house was full of citizens, and so 
the less pleasant, but that I was willing to make an end of 
my gaddings. Here we saw the old Roxalana’ in the chief 
box, in a velvet gown, as the fashion is, and very handsome, 
at which I was glad. 

2d. To see Sir W. Pen, who is fallen sick again. I 
staid a while talking to him, and so to my office, practising 
arithmetique. 

4th. (Lord’s day.) Up and to church, where a lazy 
sermon. My wife did propound my having of my sister 
Pall again to be her woman, since one we must have, it 
being a very great trouble to me that I should have a sister 
of so ill a nature, that I must be forced to spend money 
upon a stranger, when it might better be upon her, if she 
were good for anything. 

5th. To the Duke, who fame told me that Sir J. Lawson 
was come home to Portsmouth from the Streights, with great 
renown among all men, and, I perceive, mightily esteemed 
at Court by all. The Duke did not stay long in his chamber, 
whither, by and by, the Russian Embassadors come; who, | 
it seems, have a custom that they will not come to have any 
treaty with our or any King’s Commissioners, but they will 
themselves see at the time the face of the King himself, be 
it forty days one after another; and so they did to-day only 
go in and see the King; and so out again to the Council- 
chamber. 'To the Duke’? s closet, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir 


*Mrs. Davenport. 


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J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Mr. Coventry, and myself at- 
tended him about the business of the Navy; and, after 
much discourse and pleasant talk, he went away. To the 
Cockpitt, where we saw “ Claracilla,” a poor play, done by 
the King’s house; but neither the King nor the Queen 
were there, but only the Duke and Duchess, who did 
show some impertinent, and, methought, unnaturall dalli- 
ances there, before the whole world, such as kissing of 
hands, and leaning upon one another; but to my very little 
content—they not acting in any degree like the Duke’s 
people. . 

6th. (Twelfth day.) Into St. Paul’s church, and there 
finding Elborough, my old schoolfellow at Paul’s, now a 
parson, whom I know to be a silly fellow, he tells me, 
and so do others, that Dr. Calamy is this day sent to 
Newgate for preaching, Sunday was sennight, without 
leave, though he did it only to supply the place; other- 
wise the people must have gone away without ever a 
sermon, they being disappointed of a minister: but the 
Bishop of London will not take that as an excuse. Thence 
into Wood Street, and there bought a fine table for my 
dining-room, cost me 50s.; and while we were buying it, 
there was a scare-fire in an ally over against us, but they 
quenched it. To the Duke’s house, and there saw Twelfth- 
Night acted well, though it be but a silly play, and not 
relating at all to the name or day. Home, and found all 
well, only myself somewhat vexed at my wife’s neglect in 
leaving her scarfe, waistcoate, and night-dressings in the 
coach, to-day, that brought us from Westminster; though, 
I confess, she did give them to me to look after. It might 
be as good as 25s. loss. 

8th. Dined at home; and there being the famous new 
play acted the first time to-day, which is called “ The 
Adventures of Five Hours,” at the Duke’s house, being, 
they say, made or translated by Colonel Tuke,* I did long 
to see it; and so we went; and though early, were forced 
to sit, almost out of sight, at the end of one of the lower 


1Sir George Tuke, of Cressing Temple, in Essex, John Evelyn’s 
cousin. The play was taken from the original of the Spanish poet, 
Calderon. Evelyn saw it on the same occasion. 


ae 


372 DIARY OF [12th Jan. 


formes, so full was the house. And the play, in one word, 
is the best, for the variety and the most excellent con- 
tinuance of the plot to the very end, that ever I saw, 
or think ever shall, and all possible, not only to be done 
in the time, but in most other respects very admittable, 
and without one word of ribaldry; and the house, by its 
frequent plaudits, did show their sufficient approbation. 
So home; with much ado in an hour getting a coach 
home, and now resolving to set up my rest as to 
plays till Easter, if not Whitsuntide next, excepting plays 
at Court. 

9th. My wife begun to speak again of the necessity of 
our keeping somebody to bear her company; for her fa- 
miliarity with the other servants is it that spoils them all, 
and other company she hath none, which is too true. 
Comes Major Tolhurst, one of my old acquaintance in 
Cromwell’s time, and sometimes of our clubb, to see 
me, and I could do no less than carry him to the Mitre, 
Tolhurst telling me the manner of their collierys in the 
North. 

12th. To the King’s Head ordinary, but people being 
set down, we went to two or three places; at last found 
some meat at a Welch cook’s at Charing Crosse, 
and here dined and our boys. Mine had struck down 
Creed’s boy in the dirt, with his new suit on, and the boy 
taken by a gentlewoman into a house to make clean, but 
the poor boy was in a pitiful taking and pickle, but I 
basted my rogue soundly. I found my Lord within, and 
he and I went out through the garden, towards the Duke’s 
chamber, to sit upon the Tangier matters; but a lady 
called to my Lord out of my Lady Castlemaine’s lodgings, 
telling him that the King was there, and would speak 
with him. My Lord could not tell me what to say at 
the Committee to excuse his absence, but that he was 
with the King; nor would suffer me to go into the Privy 
Garden, which is now a thorough passage and common, 
but bid me go through some other way, which I did: 
so that I see he is a servant of the King’s pleasures 
too, as well as business. To my Lady Batten’s, and set 
with her a while, but I did it out of design to get some 


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oranges for my feast to-morrow of her, which I did. So 
home, and found my wife’s new gown come home, and 
she mightily pleased with it. 

13th. My poor wife rose by five o’clock in the morning, 
before day, and went to market and bought fowles and many 
other things for dinner, with which I was highly pleased, 
and the chine of beef was down also before six o’clock, 
and my own jacke, of which I was doubtfull, do carry 
it very well, things being put in order, and the cook come. 
By and by comes Dr. Clerke, and his lady, his sister, and 
a she-cozen, and Mr. Pierce and his wife, which was all 
my guests. I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a 
hash of rabbits and lamb, and a rare chine of beef. Next 
a great dish of roasted fowle, cost me about 30s., and a 
tart, and then fruit and cheese. My dinner was noble, 
and enough. I had my house mighty clean and neat; 
my room below with a good fire in it; my dining-room 
above, and my chamber being made a_ withdrawing- 
chamber; and my wife’s a good fire, also. I find my 
new table very proper, and will hold nine or ten people 
well, but eight with great room. At supper, had a good 
sack posset and cold meat, and sent my guests away 
about ten o’clock at night, both them and myself highly 
pleased with our management of this day: and indeed 
their company was very fine, and Mrs. Clerke a_ very 
witty, fine lady, though a little conceited and proud. I 
believe this day’s feast will cost me near 51. 

14th. Examining part of my sea-manuscripts with great 
“pleasure, my wife sitting working by me. 

15th. Mr. Coventry to dine with me, I having a wild 
goose roasted, and a cold chine of beef and a barrel of 
oysters; and then he and [I to fit ourselves for horseback, 
he having brought me a horse; and so to Deptford, the 
ways being very dirty. Did our main business, which 
was to examine the proof of our new way of the call- 
bookes, which we think will be of great use. And so I 
home with his horse, leaving him to go over the fields to 
Lambeth. 

16th. Mr. Battersby, the apothecary, coming to see 
me, I called for the cold chine of beef, and made him 


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eat, and drink wine, and talked, there being with us 
Captain Brewer, the paynter, who tells me how highly 
the Presbyters do talk in the coffee-houses still, which I 
wonder at. 

17th. To the Duke’s playhouse, where we did see 
“The Five Hours’” entertainment again, which indeed 
is a very fine play, though, through my being out of 
order, it did not seem so good as at first; but I could 
discern it was not any fault in the play. ‘To the China 
alehouse, and so home. 

18th. (Lord’s day.) I went to church. Then to Sir 
W. Pen’s, to see how he do, and find him pretty well 
and ready to go abroad again. 

19th. To wait on my Lord Sandwich, whom I found 
not very well, and Dr. Clerke with him. He is feverish, 
and hath sent for Mr. Pearce to let him blood. Then to 
the Duke; and in his closet discoursed as we used to do, 
and then broke up. Singled out Mr. Coventry into the 
matted gallery, and there I told him the complaints I meet 
every day about our Treasurer’s or his people’s paying no 
money but at the goldsmiths’ shops, where they are forced 
to pay fifteen, or twenty sometimes, per cent. for their 
money, which is a most horrid shame, and that which 
must not be suffered. Nor is it likely that the Treasurer 
—at least, his people—will suffer Maynell the Goldsmith 
to go away with 10,0001. per annum, as he do now get, 
by making people pay after this manner for their money. 
To Mr. Povy’s, where really he made a most excellent and, 
large dinner, of their variety, even to admiration, he 
bidding us, in a frolique, to eall for what we had a mind, 
and he would undertake to give it us; and we did for 
prawns, swan, venison, after I had thought the dinner was 
quite done, and he did immediately produce it, which I 
thought great plenty, and he seems to set up his rest in this 
plenty, and the neatness of his house, which he after dinner 
showed me, from room to room, so beset with delicate pic- 
tures; and above all, a piece of perspective in his closet in 
the low parlour: his stable, where was some most delicate 
horses, and the very racks painted and mangers, with a neat 
leaden painted cistern, and the walls done with Dutch tiles, 
like my chimnies. But still, above all things, he bid me go 


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down into his wine-cellar, where, upon several shelves there 
stood bottles of all sorts of wine, new and old, with labells 
pasted upon each bottle, and in the order and plenty as I 
never saw books in a bookseller’s shop; and herein, I observe, 
he puts his highest content, and will accordingly commend 
all that he hath; but still they deserve to be so. Here dined 
with me Dr. Moore. ‘To my Lord Chancellor’s, where the 
King was to meet my Lord Treasurer and many great men, 
to settle the revenue of Tangier. I staid talking awhile there, 
but the King not coming, I walked to my brother’s. This 
day, by Dr. Clerke, I was told the occasion of my Lord 
Chesterfield’s going and taking his lady, my Lord Ormond’s 
daughter, from Court. It seems, he not only hath been 
long jealous of the Duke of York, but did find them two 
talking together, though there were others in the room, and 
the lady, by all opinions, a most good, virtuous woman. 
He, the next day, of which the Duke was warned by some- 
body that saw the passion my Lord Chesterfield was in the 
night before, went and told the Duke how much he did 
apprehend himself wronged, in his picking out his lady of 
the whole Court to be the subject of his dishonour; which 
the Duke did answer with great calmness, not seeming to 
understand the reason of complaint, and that was all that 
passed: but my Lord did presently pack his lady into the 
country in Derbyshire, near the Peake; which is become 
a proverb at Court, to send a man’s wife to the Peake when 
she vexes him. 

21st. Dined at Mr. Ackworth’s,? where a pretty dinner, 
and she a pretty, modest woman; but, above all things, 
we saw her Rocke, which is one of the finest things 
done by a woman that ever I saw. I must have my 
wife to see it. On board the Elias, and found the timber 
brought by her from the forest of Deane to be exceeding 
good. 

22d. Mr. Dixon come to dine with me, to give me an 
account of his success with Mr. Wheatly, for his daughter 
for my brother; and in short is, that his daughter cannot 
fancy my brother, because of his imperfection in his speech, 


1Brettby Hall, the country-seat of the Earls of Chesterfield, is no 
longer standing. There is a good view of it by Knyff and Kip. 
2? Who held some office in Deptford Yard. 


376 DIARY OF [25th Jan. 


which I am sorry for, but there the business must die. With 
the rest of the officers to Mr. Russell’s burial, where we 
had wine and rings, and a great and good company of the 
aldermen and the livery of the Skinners’ Company. We 
went to St. Dunstan’s in the East church, where sermon, 
but I staid not. To my Lord, and there find him expect- 
ing his fit to-night of an ague. 

23d. Mr. Grant and I to a coffee-house, where Sir J. 
Cutler’? was; and he did fully make out that the trade of 
England is as great as ever it was, only in more hands; and 
that of all trades there is a greater number than ever 
there was, by reason of men’s taking more ’prentices. His 
discourse was well worth hearing. I bought ‘ Audley’s 
Way to be Rich,”’ a serious pamphlett, and some good 
things worth my minding. Meeting Sir W. Batten, drunk 
more. Much discourse, but little to be learned, but of a 
design in the North of a rising, which is discovered, among 
some men of condition, and they sent for up. To see Sir W. 
Pen, where was Sir J. Lawson and his lady and daughter, 
which is pretty enough. 

25th. (Lord’s day.) I understand the King of France is 
upon consulting his Divines upon the old question, what 
the power of the Pope is? and do intend to make war 
against him, unless he do him right for the wrong his Em- 
bassador received ;’ and banish the Cardinall Imperiall; by 


1Citizen and grocer of London; most severely handled by Pope. 
Two statues were erected to his memory—one in the College of Phy- 
sicians, and the other in the Grocers’ Hall. They were erected and one 
removed (that in the College of Physicians) before Pope stigmatized 
“sage Cutler.” Pope says that Sir John Cutler had an only daughter; 
in fact, he had two: one married to Lord Radnor; the other, mentioned 
afterwards by Pepys, the wife of Sir William Portman. 


2See note, 23rd November, 1662, ante. 


On the 20th of August, the Due de Créqui, then French ambassador 
at Rome, was insulted by the Corsican armed police, a force whose ig- 
noble duty it was to assist the Sbirri, and the Pope Alexander VII. at 
first refused reparation for the affront offered to the French. Louis, as 
in the case of D’Estrades, took prompt measures. He ordered the Papal 
Nuncio forthwith to quit France; he seized upon Avignon, and his 
army prepared to enter Italy. Alexander found it necessary to submit. 
In fulfilment of a treaty signed at Pisa in 1664, Cardinal Chigi, the 
Pope’s nephew, came to Paris, to tender the Pope’s apology to Louis. 
The guilty individuals were punished; the Corsicans banished for ever 


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which I understand is not meant the cardinall belonging or 
chosen by the Emperor, but the name of his family is Im- 
periali.”. To my Lord, who had his ague-fit last night, and 
I staid talking with him an hour alone in his chamber, 
about sundry publick and private matters. Among others, 
he wonders what the project should be of the Duke’s going 
down to Portsmouth again now with his lady, at this time 
of the year: it being no way, we think, to increase his 
popularity, which is not great; nor yet safe to do it, for 
that reason, if it would have any such effect. Captain 
Ferrers tells me of my Lady Castlemaine’s and Sir Charles 
Barkeley being the great favourites at Court, and growing 
every day more and more so; and that upon a late dispute 
between my Lord Chesterfield, that is the Queen’s Lord 
Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward Montagu, her Master of 
the Horse, who should have the precedence in taking the 
Queen’s upperhand abroad out of the house, which Mr. 
Montagu challenges, it was given to my Lord Chesterfield. 
So that I perceive he goes down the wind in honour as well 
as every thing else, every day. A messenger is come, that 
tells us how Colonel Honiwood, who was well yesterday at 
Canterbury, was flung by his horse in getting up, and broke 
his scull, and so is dead.” 

26th. By water with Sir W. Batten to Whitehall. I met 
with Monsieur Raby, who is lately come from France. He 
tells me that my Lord Hinchingbroke and his brother do 
little improve there, and are much neglected in their habits 
and other things; but I do believe he hath a mind to go 
over as their tutor, and so I am not apt to believe what he 
says therein. I had a great deal of very good discourse 
with him, concerning the difference between the French and 


from the Roman States; and in front of the guard-house which they 
had occupied a pyramid was erected, bearing an inscription, which em- 
bodied the Pope’s apology. This pyramid Louis permitted Clement IX. 
to destroy on his accession. 

1ZLorenzo Imperiali, of Genoa. He had been appointed Governor of 
Rome by Innocent X., in 1654, and he had acted in that capacity at the 
time of the tumult. 

2Colonel Henry Honywood, of Little Archer’s Court River, Kent, 
who had taken up arms against Charles I. He was the son of Arthur 
Honywood, of Lincoln’s Inn and Maidstone, and had sepulture at 
Christ Church, Canterbury. Hasted’s Kent, vol. iv. p. 40. 


378 DIARY OF [sth Jan. 


the Pope; and the occasion, which he told me very par- 
ticularly, and to my great content; and of most of the chief 
affairs of France, which I did enquire: and that the King 
is a most excellent Prince, doing all business himself: and 
that it is true he hath a mistress, Mademoiselle La Valiére, 
one of the Princess Henriette’s women, that he courts for 
his pleasure every other day, but not so as to make him 
neglect his publick affairs. He tells me how the King do 
carry himself nobly to the relations of the dead Cardinall* 
and will not suffer one pasquill to come forth against him; 
and that he acts by what directions he received from him 
before his death. 

27th. I have news this day from Cambridge that my 
brother hath had his bachelor’s cap put on; but that which 
troubles me is, that he hath the paine of the stone, it begin- 
ning just as mine did. I pray God help him. 

28th. To my Lord Sandwich’s, whom I find missing his 
ague fit to-day, and is pretty well, playing at dice, and by 
this I see how time and example may alter a man; he being 
now acquainted with all sorts of pleasures and vanities, 
which heretofore he never thought of, nor loved, nor, it may 
be, hath allowed, with Ned Pickering and his page Lond. 
To Wotton’s, the shoemaker, and there bought another pair 
of new boots. I drank with him and his wife—a pretty 
woman, they broaching a vessel of cyder on purpose for me. 
My wife come home and seeming to cry; for, bringing 
home in a coach her new ferrandin waistecoate, in Cheap- 
side, a man asked her whether that was the way to the 
Tower; and while she was answering him, another, on the 
other side, snatched away her bundle out of her lap, and 


1Cardinal Mazarin. 


2 Ferrandin, which was sometimes spelt farendon, was a stuff made of 
silk mixed with some other material, like what is now called poplin: 
both mohair and farendon are generally cheap materials; for in the case 
of Manby v. Scott, decided in the Exchequer Chamber in 1663, and re- 
ported in the first vol. of Modern Reports, the question being as to the 
liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied against his consent to 
his wife, who had separated from him, Mr. Justice Hyde (whose judg- 
ment is most amusing) observes, in putting various supposed cases, that 
“The wife will have a velvet gown and a satin petticoat, and the hus- 
band thinks a mohair or farendon for a gown, and watered tabby for a 
petticoat, is as fashionable, and fitter for her quality.” 


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could not be recovered, but ran away with it, which vexes 
me cruelly, but it cannot be helped. 

80th. A solemn fast for the King’s murther, and we were 
forced to keep it more than we would have done, having 
forgot to take any victuals into the house. I to church 
in the forenoon, and Mr. Mills made a good sermon upon 
David’s heart smiting him for cutting off the garments 
of Saul. My manuscript is brought home handsomely 
bound, to my full content; and now I think I have 
a better collection in reference to the Navy, and shall 
have by the time I have filled it, than any of my pre- 
decessors. 

31st. In the evening examining my wife’s letter, intended 
to my Lady, and another to Mademoiselle, they were so 
false spelt, that I was ashamed of them. 

February Ist. (Lord’s day.) To my Lord Sandwich’s. 
Many discourses we had; but, among others, how Sir R. 
Bernard is turned out of his Recordership of Huntingdon 
by the Commissioners for Regulation, &c., at which I am 
troubled, because he, thinking it is done by my Lord Sand- 
wich, will act some of his revenge, it is likely, upon me in 
my business. This day Creed and I, walking in White 
Hall, did see the King coming privately from my Lady 
Castlemaine’s; which is a poor thing for a Prince to do; 
and so I expressed my sense of it to Creed, in terms which 
I should not have done, but that I believe he is trusty in 
that point. 

9d. With Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to the Duke; 
and after discourse as usual with him in his closet, 1 went 
to my Lord’s: the King and the Duke being gone to 
chapel, it being a collar-day, Candlemas-day; where I staid” 
with him until towards noon, there being Jonas Moore 
talking about some mathematical businesses. With Mr. 
Coventry down to his chamber, where he did tell me how 
he do make himself an interest by doing business truly and 
justly, though he thwarts others greater than himself, not 
striving to make himself friends by addresses; and by this 
he thinks and observes he do live as contentedly, now he 
finds himself secured from fear of want, and, take one time 
with another, as void of fear or cares, or more, than they 
that, as his own termes were, have quicker pleasures and 


380 DIARY OF [6th Feb. 


sharper agonies than he. I met Madam Turner, she and 
her daughter having been at the play to-day at the Temple, 
it being a revelling time with them. Thence called at my 
brother’s, who is at church, at the buriall of young Cum- 
berland—a lusty young man. 
_ 4th. To Paul’s Schoole, it being Opposition-day there. I 
heard some of their speeches, and they were just as school- 
boys used to be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think 
not so good as our’s were in our time. ‘Thence to Bow 
Church, to the Court of Arches, where a judge sits, and his 
proctors about him in their habits, and their pleadings 
all in Latin. Here I was sworn to give a true answer 
to my uncle’s libells. And back again to Paul’s School, 
and went up to see the head forms posed in Latin, Greek, 
and Hebrew; but I think they do not answer in any so” 
well as we did, only in geography they did pretty well. 
Dr. Wilkins and Outram’ were examiners. So down to 
the school, where Mr. Crumlum did me much honour by 
telling many what a present I had made to the school, 
shewing my Stephanus in four volumes. He also shewed 
us upon my desire an old edition of the grammar of 
Colett’s, where his epistle to the children is very pretty; 
and in rehearsing the creed it is said “ borne of the cleane 
Virgin Mary.” 
' 5th. To dinner, and found it so well done, above what I 
did expect from my maid Susan, now Jane is gone, that I 
did call her in, and give her sixpence. 

6th. To Lincoln’s Inn Fields; and it being too soon to 
go to dinner, I walked up and down, and looked upon the 
outside of the new theatre building in Covent Garden,” 
which will be very fine. And so to a bookseller’s in the 
Strand, and there bought Hudibras again, it being certainly 
some ill humour to be so against that which all the world 
cries up to be the example of wit; for which I am resolved 
once more to read him, and see whether I can find it or no. 
To Mr. Povy’s, and there found them at dinner, and dined 


\ 


*William Outram, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster. Ob. 1679; 
one of the ablest and best of the Conformists, eminent for his piety and 
charity, and an excellent preacher. 


? Killigrew’s, opened 8th of April, 1663. 


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there—there being, among others, Mr. Williamson,’ Latin 
secretary, who, I perceive, is a pretty knowing man and 
a scholar, but, it may be, he thinks himself to be too much 
so. ‘To the Temple, to my cozen Roger Pepys, where met 
us my uncle Thomas and his son; and after many high 
demands, we at last come to a kind of agreement upon 
very hard terms, which are to be prepared in writing against 
Tuesday next. 

8th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and it being a very great frost, 
I walked to White Hall to chapel, where there preached 
little Dr. Duport,’ of Cambridge, upon Josiah’s words :— 
* But I and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Thence 
with Mr. Creed to the King’s Head ordinary. After 
dinner, Sir Thomas Willis* and another stranger, and Creed 
and I, fell a-talking; they of the errours and corruption 
of the Navy, and great expence thereof, not knowing who 
I was, which, at last, I did undertake to confute, and dis- 
abuse them: and they took it very well, and I hope it was 
to good purpose, they being Parliament-men. Creed, and 
I, and Captain Ferrers to the Parke, and there walked 
finely, seeing people slide, we talking all the while, and 
Captain Ferrers telling me, among other Court passages, 
how, about a month ago, at a ball at Court, a child was 
dropped by one of the ladies in dancing, but nobody knew 
who, it being taken up by somebody in their handkercher. 
The next morning all the ladies of honour appeared early 
at Court for their vindication, so that nobody could tell 
whose this mischance should be. But it seems Mrs. Wells* 


1 Joseph Williamson, Keeper of the State Paper Office at White Hall, 
and in 1663 made Under-Secretary of State, and soon afterwards 
knighted. In 1664 he became Secretary of State, which appointment 
he filled four years. He represented Thetford or Rochester in different 
parliaments, and was in 1678 President of the. Royal Society. Ob. 
1701. 


?James Duport, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, 1664, and Master of 
Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1668. Ob. 1679. 


8Sir Thomas Willis, mentioned April 20, 1660, possessed some pro- 
perty at Ditton, in Cambridgeshire, where he was buried, in 1705, in 
his ninety-first year. In 1679, he had been put out of the Commission 
of the Peace for that county, for concurring with the Fanatic party in 
opposing the Court.—Cole’s MSS. 


‘Winifred Wells, who has been considered as one of Charles’s mis- 
tresses; but the “petite disgrace,’ as Hamilton styles it, here related, 


882 DIARY OF [9th Feb. 


fell sick that afternoon, and hath disappeared ever since, 
so that it is concluded it was her. Another story was how 
Lady Castlemaine, a few days since. had Mrs. Stuart’ to an 
entertainment, and at night began a frolique that they two 
must be married—and married they were, with ring and all 
other ceremonies of church service, and ribbands* and a 
sack posset in bed, and flinging the stocking; but, in the 
close, it is said, that my Lady Castlemaine, who was the bride- 
groom, rose, and the King come and took her place. This 
is said to be very true. Another story was, how Captain 
Ferrers and W. Howe both have often, through my Lady 
Castlemaine’s window, seen her go to bed, and Sir Charles 
Barkeley in the chamber. The little Duke of Monmouth, 
it seems, is ordered to take place of all Dukes, and so do 
follow Prince Rupert now, before the Duke of Buckingham 
or any else. 


occurred to another of the Queen’s Maids of Honour, Mary Kirk, sister 
to the Countess of Oxford. She retired from the Court, and, three 
years afterwards, having assumed the name of Warmestre, and having 
passed as a widow, married Sir Thomas Vernon, who was Killigrew’s 
cousin. “The merry Mrs. Kirke,” says Warburton, speaking of the 
Court at Oxford, in 1642, “is said to have fascinated the grave Prince 
Maurice.” This was the mother of Lady Vernon. ‘“ The Queen,” says 
Lord Cornbury, in a letter to the Marchioness of Worcester, 10th June, 
1662, “is much concerned that the English ladies spend so much time 
in dressing themselves. She fears they bestow but little on God Al- 
mighty and on housewifery. We are a very unsettled family, not one 
Lady of the Bed-Chamber named, besides my Lady Suffolk, who is in 
waiting; and they say both the number and persons you formerly heard 
mentioned, will be much altered. The four Dressers are fixed, who are 
my Lady Scrope, Lady Wood, Mrs. Frazier, and Mrs. La Garde. The 
Maids of Honour are likewise in waiting—viz., Mrs. Cary, Mrs. Stuart, 
Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Boynton, Mrs. Warmestry. The Maids of 
the Privy Chamber are but two, my Lady Mary Savage and my Lady 
Betty Livingstone, my Lord Newborough’s daughter.”—Eliot Warbur- 
ton’s Memoirs of Prince Rupert, vol. iii, p. 461—464. This seems to 
be the best account of Queen Catherine’s household; but Warmestry, 
if it is correct, was the Maid of Honour’s real name, and not that which 
she assumed when banished from the Court. 


1Frances Terese, eldest daughter of Walter Stuart, third son of the 
first Lord Blantyre, one of the greatest beauties at the Court of Charles 
II., became the third wife of Charles Lennox, sixth Duke of Lennox, 
and fourth Duke of Richmond. She died October 15, 1702, without 
issue, having survived her husband thirty years. Pepys spells her name 
Stuart, Steward, and Stewart; the first is right. 


2See ante, Jan. 24, 1659-60, note. 


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10th. W. Warren’ come himself to the door, and left 
a letter and box for me, and went his way. His letter 
mentions giving me and my wife a pair of gloves; but, 
opening the box, we found a pair of plain white gloves for 
my hand, and a fair state-dish of silver, and cup, with my 
armes, ready cut, upon them, worth, I believe, about 181., 
which is a very noble present, and the best I ever had yet. 
So, after some contentful talk with my wife, she to bed and 
I to rest. 

llth. At night my wife read Sir H. Vane’s trial to me, 
and I find it a very excellent thing—worth reading, and him 
to have been a very wise man. 

13th. Mr. Cole, our timber-merchant, sent me five couple 
of ducks. ‘To my office, where late upon business; Mr. 
Bland sitting with me, talking of my Lord Windsor’s 
being come home from Jamaica, unlooked-for; which makes 
us think that these young Lords are not fit to do any 
service abroad, though it is said that he could not have 
his health there, but hath razed a fort of the King of 
Spain upon Cuba, which is considerable, or said to be so, 
for his honour. 

14th. My uncle Thomas, and his sons both, and I, did 
meet at my cozen Roger’s, and there sign and seal to an 
agreement, and with great seeming love parted. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) Talking along with my wife, and 
teaching her things in astronomy. 

16th. To Westminster Hall, and there find great ex- 
pectation what the Parliament will do, when they come 
two days hence to sit again, in matters of religion. The 
great question is, whether the Presbyters will be con- 
tented to let the Papists have the same liberty of con- 
science with them, or no, or rather be denied it them- 
selves: and the Papists, I hear, are very busy in designing 
how to make the Presbyters consent to take their liberty, 
and to let them have the same with them, which some are 
apt to think they will. It seems a priest was taken in 
his vests officiating somewhere in Holborne the other day, 
and was committed by Secretary Morris, according to law; 
and they say the Bishop of London do give him thanks 
for it. 

* Afterwards Sir William Warren. 


384 DIARY OF [17th Feb. 


17th. To my office, my wife being gone to Chelsey with 
her brother and sister and Mrs. Lodum, to see the wassel 
at schoole, where Mary Ashwell is. To my Lord Sand- 
wich, whom I found at cards with Pickering; but he made 
an end soon; and so all alone, he told me he had a great 
secret to tell me, such as no flesh knew but himself, nor 
ought; which was this:—that yesterday morning, Eschar, 
Mr. Edward Montagu’s man, did come to him from his 
master with some of the Clerkes of the Exchequer, for my 
Lord to sign to their books for the Embassy money’ which 
my Lord very civilly desired not to do till he had spoke with 
his master himself. In the afternoon, my Lord and my 
Lady Wright being at cards in his chamber, in comes Mr. 
Montagu; and, desiring to speak with my Lord at the win- 
dow in his chamber, he began to charge my Lord with the 
. greatest ingratitude in the world; that he, that had received 
his earldom, garter, 4000]. per annum, and whatever he has 
in the world, from him, should now study him all the dis- 
honour that he could; and so fell to tell my Lord, that if 
he should speak all that he knew of him, he could do so and 
so. In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was 
unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoke in. 
To which my Lord answered with great temper, justifying 
himself, but endeavouring to lessen his heat, which was a 
strange temper in him, knowing that he did owe all he 
hath in the world to my Lord, and that he is now all that 
he is by his means and favour. But my Lord did forbear to 
increase the quarrel, knowing that it would be to no good 
purpose for the world to see a difference in the family; but 
did allay him so as that he fell to weeping. And after much 
talk, among other things, Mr. Montagu telling him that 
there was a fellow in the town, naming me, that had done ill 
offices, and that if he knew it to be so, he would have him 
cudgelled, my Lord did promise him, that, if upon account 
he saw that there was not many tradesmen unpaid, he would 
sign the books; but, if there was, he could not bear with 
taking too great a debt upon him. So this day he sent him 
an account, and a letter, assuring him there was not above 
2001. unpaid; and so my Lord did sign to the Exchequer 
books. Upon the whole, I understand fully what a rogue 


1That to Portugal, respecting the Royal marriage. 


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he is, and how my Lord do think and will think of him for 
the future; telling me that thus he has served his father, 
my Lord Manchester, and his whole family, and now him- 
self: and, which is worst, that he hath abused, and in 
speeches every day do abuse, my Lord Chancellor, whose 
favour he hath lost; and hath no friend but Sir H. Bennet, 
and that, I knowing the rise of his friendship, only from the 
likeness of their pleasures, and acquaintances, and concern- 
ments, they have in the same matters of lust and baseness ; 
for which God forgive them! But he do flatter himself, 
from promises of Sir H. Bennet, that he shall have a 
pension of 20001. per annum, and be made an Earl. My 
Lord told me he expected a challenge from him, but told me 
there was no great fear of him, for there was no man lies 
under such an imputation as he do in the business of Mr. 
Cholmly, who, though a simple, sorry fellow, do brave him, 
and struts before him with the Queen, to. the sport and 
observation of the whole Court. He did keep my Lord at 
the window, reviling and braving him above an hour, my 
Lady Wright being by; but my Lord tells me she could not 
hear every word, but did well know what their discourse 
was; she could hear enough to know that. So that he com- 
mands me to keep it as the greatest secret in the world, and 
bids me beware of speaking words against Mr. Montagu, for 
fear I should suffer by his passion thereby. Mr. Pickering 
tells me the story is very true of a child being dropped at 
the ball at Court; and that the King had it in his closet a 
week after, and did dissect it; and making great sport of it, 
said that, in his opinion, it must have been a month and 
three hours old; and that, whatever others think, he hath 
the greatest loss, it being a boy, as he says, that hath lost 
a subject by the business. He tells me, too, that the other 
[story], of my Lady Castlemaine’s and Stuart’s marriage, 
is certain, and that it was in order to the King’s coming to 
Stuart, as is believed generally. He tells me that Sir H. 
Bennet is a Catholique, and how all the Court almost is 
changed to the worse since his coming in, they being afraid 
of him. And that the Queen Mother’s Court is now the 
greatest of all; and that our own Queen hath little or no 
company come to her, which I know also to be very true, 
and am sorry to see it. 
VOL. I. cc 


386 DIARY OF [21st Feb. 


18th. Mr. Hater and I alone at the office, finishing our 
account of the extra charge of the Navy, not properly be- 
longing to the Navy, since the King’s coming in to Christ- 
mas last; and, all extra things being abated, I find that the 
true charge of the Navy to that time hath been after the 
rate of 74,7431. a year. I made an end by eleven o’clock 
at night. This day the Parliament met again, after their 
long prorogation; but I know not any thing what they have 
done, being within doors all day. 

19th. My eyes begin to fail me, lying so long by candle- 
light upon white paper. This day I read the King’s speech 
to the Parliament yesterday, which is very short, and not 
very obliging; but only telling them his desire to have a 
power of indulging tender consciences, and that he will 
yield to have any mixture in the uniformity of the Church’s 
discipline; and says the same for the Papists, but declares 
against their ever being admitted to have any offices or 
places of trust in the kingdom; but, God knows, too many 
have. 

Q1ist. To the office, where Sir J. Minnes, most of the rest 
being at the Parliament-house, all the morning answering 
petitions and other business. Towards noon, there comes 
a man, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a writ 
from the Exchequer, called a Commission of Rebellion, and 
tells me that I am his prisoner in Field’s business; which, 
methought, did strike me to the heart, to think that we 
could not sit in the middle of the King’s business. I told 
him how and where we were employed, and bid him have a 
care; and perceiving that we were busy, he said he would, 
and did withdraw for an hour; in which time Sir J. Minnes 
took coach and to Court, to see what he could do from 
thence: and our solicitor against Field come by chance, and 
told me that he would go and satisfy the fees of the Court, 
and would end the business. So he went away about that, 
and I staid in my closet, till by and by the man and four 
more of his fellows come to know what I would do; and I 
told them to stay till I heard from the King or my Lord 
Chief Baron, to both whom I had now sent. With that 
they consulted, and told me, that if I would promise to stay 
in the house, they would go and refresh themselves, and 
come again, and know what answer I had; so they away, 


ee eee 


oo ee ae 


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and I home to dinner. Before I had dined, the bayleys 
come back again with the constable, and at the office knock 
for me, but found me not there; and I, hearing in what 
manner they were come, did forbear letting them know 
where I was; so they stood knocking and enquiring for me. 
By and by, at my parler-window comes Sir W. Batten’s 
Mingo, to tell me that his master and lady would have me 
come to their house, through Sir J. Minnes’s lodgings, 
which I could not do; but, however, by ladders, did get 
over the pale between our yards and their house, where I 
found them, as they have reason, to be much concerned for 
me, my lady especially. The fellows staid in the yard, 
swearing, with one or two constables, and some time we 
locked them into the yard, and by and by let them out 
again, and so kept them all the afternoon, not letting them 
see me, or know where I was. One time, I went up to the 
top of Sir W. Batten’s house, and out of one of their windows 
spoke to my wife out of one of ours; which methought, 
though I did it in mirth, yet I was sad to think what a sad 
thing it would be for me to be really in that condition. By 
and by comes Sir J. Minnes, who, like himself and all that 
he do, tells us that he can do no good, but that my Lord 
Chancellor wonders that we did not cause the seamen to fall 
about their eares, which we wished we could have done 
without our being seen in it; and Captain Grove being there, 
he did give them some affront, and would have got some 
seamen to have drubbed them, but he had not time, nor did 
we think it fit to have done it, they having executed their 
commission; but there was occasion given that he did draw - 
upon one of them who did complain that Grove had pricked 
him in the breast, but no hurt done; but I see that Grove 
would have done our business to them if we had bid him. By 
and by comes Mr. Clerke, our sollicitor, who brings us a 
release from our adverse atturney, we paying the fees of the 
commission, which comes to five markes, and the charges of 
these fellows, which are called the commissioners, but are 
the most rake-shamed rogues that ever I saw in my life; so 
he showed them this release, and they seemed satisfied, and 
went away with him to their atturney to be paid by him. 
But before they went, Sir W. Batten and my lady did begin 
to taunt them, but the rogues answered them as high as 
cc2 


388 DIARY OF [2ist Feb. 


themselves, and swore they would come again, and called me 
rogue and rebel, and they would bring the sheriffe and untile 
his house, before he should harbour a rebel in his house, 
and that they would be here again shortly. Well, at last, 
they went away, and I by advice took occasion to go abroad, 
and walked through the street to show myself among the 
neighbours, that they might not think worse than the busi- 
ness is. I home to Sir W. Batten’s again, where Sir J. 
Lawson, Captain Allen, Spragg,’ and several others, and all 
our discourse about the disgrace done to our office, to be 
liable to this trouble, which we must get removed. Hither 
comes Mr. Clerke by and by, and tells me that he hath paid 
the fees of the Court for the Commission; but the men are 
not contented with under 51. for their charges, which he will 
not give them, and therefore advises me not to stir abroad 
till Monday, that he comes or sends to me again, whereby I 
shall not be able to go to White Hall to- the Duke of York, 
as I ought. Here I staid vexing, and yet pleased to see 
every body for me, man, woman, and child, my Lady and 
Mrs. Turner especially for me; and so home, where my 
people are mightily surprised to see this business; but it 
troubles me not very much, it being nothing touching my 
particular person or estate. Sir W. Batten tells me that 
little is done yet in the Parliament-house, but only this day 
it was moved and ordered that all the members of the House 
do subscribe to the renouncing of the Covenant, which, it is 
thought, will try some of them. There is also a bill brought 
in for the wearing of nothing but cloths or stuffs of our own 
manufacture, and is likely to be passed. Among other talk 
this morning, my lady did speak concerning Commissioner 
Pett’s calling the present King bastard, and other high 
words heretofore: and Sir W. Batten did tell us, that he did 
give the Duke and Mr. Coventry an account of that and 


1Edward Spragge, knighted for his gallant conduct, as a Captain in 
the first sea-fight with the Dutch in 1665. After rendering many im- 
portant naval services to his country, he was unfortunately drowned, 
on the 11th of August, 1673, whilst passing in a boat to the Royal 
Charles, from his own ship, which had been disabled in the action with 
Van Tromp. He lies buried in Westminster Abbey, without any me- 
morial; nor have we the slightest record of his early history, or of the 
family from which he was descended. 


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other like matters in writing, under oath, of which I was 
ashamed, and for which I was sorry. 

22d. (Lord’s day.) Went not out all the morning; but 
after dinner to Sir W. Batten’s and Sir W. Pen’s, where 
discoursing much of yesterday’s trouble and scandal; but 
that which troubled me most, was Sir J. Minnes coming 
from Court at night, and instead of bringing great comfort 
from thence, but I expected no better from him, he 
tells me that the Duke and Mr. Coventry make no great 
matter of it. 

23d. Up by times; and not daring to go by land, did, 


@O . 


Griffin going along with me, for fear, slip to White Hall by . 


water; where to Mr. Coventry, and, as we used to do, to 


the Duke; the other of my fellows being come. But . 


we did nothing of our business, the Duke being sent for to 
the King, that he could not stay to speak with us. This 
morning come my Lord Windsor to kiss the Duke’s hand, 
being returned from Jamaica. He tells the Duke, that 
from such a degree of latutude going thither he began to 
be sick, and was never well till his coming so far back 
again, and then presently begun to be well. He told the 
Duke of their taking the fort of St. Jago, upon Cuba, 
with his men; but, upon the whole, I believe, that he did 
matters like a young lord, and was weary of being upon 
service out of his own country, where he might have 
pleasure; for methought it was a shame to see him this 
very afternoon, being the first day of his coming to town, 
to be at a playhouse. To my Lord Sandwich: it was a 
great trouble to me, and I had great apprehensions of it, 
that my Lord desired me to go to Westminster Hall, to the 
Parliament-house door, about business; and to Sir Wilham 
Wheeler,’ which I told him I would, but durst not go for 
fear of being taken by these rogues; but was forced to go 
to White Hall and take boat, and so land below the Tower 
at the Iron-gate, and so the back way over little Tower 
Hill; and with my cloak over my face, took one of the 
watermen along with me, and staid behind our garden-wall, 


1Sir William Wheler, of Westminster, was created a Baronet, 
August 11, 1660, with remainder to his cousin, Charles Wheler, who 
succeeded to the honour, upon his death. He was then M.P. for 


Queenborough. 


390 DIARY OF [23d Feb. 


while he went to see whether any body stood within the 
Merchants’ Gate. But there was nobody; and so I got 
safe into the garden, and, coming to open my office door, 
something behind it fell in the opening, which made me 
start. So that God knows in what a sad condition I should 
be if I were truly in debt: and therefore ought to bless 
God that I have no such reall reason, and to endeavour to 
keep myself, by my good deportment and good husbandry, 
out of any such condition. At home, I find, by a note, 
that Mr. Clerke, in my absence hath left here, that I am 
"ree; and that he hath stopped all matters in Court; and I 
was very glad of it, and immediately had a light thought of 
taking pleasure to rejoice my heart, and so resolved to take 
my wife to a play at court to-night, and the rather because 
it is my birth-day, being this day thirty years old, for which 
‘let me praise God. While my wife dressed herself, Creed 
and I walked out to see what play was acted to-day, and we 
find it “The Slighted Mayde.”* To the Duke’s house, 
where we saw it well acted, though the play hath little 
good in it, being most pleased to see the little girl dance 
in boy’s apparel, she having very fine legs, only bends in 
the hams, as I perceive all women do. The play being 
done, we took coach, and to Court, and there saw “ The 
Wilde Gallant ’”” performed by the King’s house, but it was 
ill acted, and the play so poor a thing as I never saw in my 
life almost, and so little answering the name, that, from the 
beginning to the end, I could not, nor can, at this time, 
tell certainly which was the Wild Gallant. The King did 
not seemed pleased at all, the whole play, nor any body else. 
My Lady Castlemaine was all worth secing to-night, and 
little Steward. Mrs. Wells do appear at Court again, and 
looks well; so that, it may be, the late report of laying the 
dropped child to her was not true.” This day I was told 
that my Lady Castlemaine hath all the King’s Christmas 


*A comedy, by Sir Robert Stapylton, acted at Lincoln’s Inn 
Fields. 

*Dryden’s first play. Evelyn saw it at Court, 5th February, 1662-3, 
the night (as appears from the original Prologue) on which it was first 
acted. Dryden has a copy of verses to the Countess of Castlemaine on 
her encouraging his first play. 


2 See ante, Feb. 8, 1662-3, and note, 


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presents, made him by the peers, given to her, which is a 
most abominable thing; and that at the great ball she was 
much richer in jewells than the Queen and Duchess put 
both together. 

24th. Among other things, my Lord tells me, that he 
hears the Commons will not agree to the King’s late decla- 
ration, nor will yield that the Papists have any ground 
given them to raise themselves up again in England, which 
I perceive by my Lord was expected at Court. 

25th. ‘The Commons in Parliament, I hear, are very high 
to stand to the Act of Uniformity, and will not indulge the 
Papists, which is endeavoured by the Court Party, nor the 
Presbyters. 

26th. Sir W. Batten and I by water to the Parliament 
house: he went in, and I walked up and down the Hall. 
All the newes is the great oddes yesterday in the votes 
between them that are for the Indulgence to the Papists 
and Presbyters, and those that are against it, which did 
carry it by 200 against 30. And pretty it is to consider 
how the King would appear to be a stiff Protestant and son 
of the Church; and yet willing to give a liberty to these 
people, because of his promise at Breda; and yet all the 
world do believe that the King would not have the liberty 
given them at all. 

27th. About 11 o’clock, Commissioner Pett and I walked 
to Chyrurgeons’ Hall, we being all invited thither, and 
promised to dine there, where we were led into the Theatre; 
and by and by comes the reader, Dr. Tearne,’ with the 
Master and Company, in a very handsome manner: and 
all being settled, he begun his lecture; and his discourse 
being ended, we had a fine dinner and good learned com- 
pany, many Doctors of Phisique, and we used with extra- 
ordinary great respect. Among other observables, we 
drunk the King’s health out of a gilt cup* given by King 
Henry VIII. to this Company, with bells hanging at it, 
which every man is to ring by shaking, after he hath drunk 
up the whole cup. There is also a very excellent piece of 


Christopher Terne, of Leyden, M.D., who lived in Lime Street, 
originally of Cambridge, and Fellow of the College of Physicians. 
Ob. 1673. 


*Still existing, and has been engraved. 


392 DIARY OF [28th Feb. 
the King, done by Holbein, stands up in the Hall, with 


the officers of the Company kneeling to him to receive their 
Charter. Dr. Scarborough took some of his friends, and I 
went with them, to see the body of a lusty fellow, a seaman, 
that was hanged for a robbery. I did touch the dead body 
with my bare hands: it felt cold, but methought it was a 
very unpleasant sight. It seems one Dillon, of a great 
family, was, after much endeavours to have saved him, 
hanged with a silken halter this Sessions, of his own pre- 
paring, not for honour only, but, it being soft and sleek, 
it do slip close and kills, that is, strangles presently; 
whereas, a stiff one do not come so close together, and 
so the party may live the longer before killed. But all the 
Doctors at table conclude, that there is no pain at all in 
hanging, for that it do stop the circulation of the blood; 
and so stops all sense and motion in an instant. To Sir W. 
Batten’s to speak upon some business, where I found Sir 
J. Minnes pretty well fuddled, I thought. He took me 
aside, to tell me how, being at my Lord Chancellor’s to-day, 
my Lord told him that there was a Great Seal passing for 
Sir W. Pen, through the impossibility of the Comptroller’s 
duty to be performed by one man, to be, as it were, joynt- 
comptroller with him, at which he is stark mad, and swears 
he will give up his place. For my part, I do hope, when 
all is done, that my following my business will keep me 
secure against all their envys. But to see how the old 
man do strut, and swear that he understands all his duty 
as easily as crack a nut, and easier, he told my Lord 
Chancellor, for his teeth are gone; and that he under- 
stands it as well as any man in England; and that he will 
never leave to record that he should be said to be unable 
to do his duty alone; though, God knows, he cannot do it 
more than a child. All this I am glad to see fall out be- 
tween them, and myself safe, and yet I hope the King’s 
service well done for all this, for I would not that should 
be hindered by any of our private differences. 

28th. The House have this noon been with the King, to 
give him their reasons for refusing to grant any indulgence 
to Presbyters or Papists; which he; with great content and 
seeming pleasures, took, saying that he doubted not but he 


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and they should agree in all things, though there may 
seem a difference in judgments, he having writ and de- 
clared for an indulgence: and that he did believe never 
prince was happier in a House of Commons than he was 
in them. ‘To my Lord Sandwich, who continues troubled 
with his cold. Our discourse most upon the outing of Sir 
R. Bernard and my Lord’s being made Recorder {of Hunt- 
ingdon]| in his stead, which he seemed well contented with, 
saying, that it may be for his convenience to have the chief 
officer of the town dependent upon him, which is very 
true. At the Privy Seale I did see the docquet by which 
Sir W. Pen is made the Comptroller’s assistant, as Sir 
J. Minnes told me last night, which I must endeavour to 
prevent. 

March Ist. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall Chappell, where 
preached one Dr. Lewes, said heretofore to have been a 
great witt; but he read his sermon every word, and that 
so brokenly and so low, that nobody could hear at any 
distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat near. But, 
which was strange, he forgot to make any prayer before 
sermon, which all wonder at, but they impute it to his for- 
getfulness. After sermon a very fine anthem: so I up into 
the house among the courtiers, seeing the fine ladies, and, 
above all, my Lady Castlemaine, who is above all, that only 
she I can observe for true beauty. The King and Queen 
being set to dinner, I went to Mr. Fox’s, and there dined 
with him. Much genteel company, and, among other 
things, I hear for certain that peace is concluded between 
the King of France and the Pope: and also I heard the 
reasons given by our Parliament yesterday to the King 
why they dissent from him in matter of Indulgence, which 
are very good quite through, and which I was glad to hear. 
Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who continues with a great 
cold, locked up; and, being alone, we fell into discourse of 
my uncle the Captain’s death and estate, and I took the op- 
portunity of telling my Lord how matters stand, and read 
his will, and told him all what a poor estate he hath left, 
at all which he wonders strangely, which he may well 
do. All to bed, without prayers, it being washing day 
to-morrow. 


394 DIARY OF [7th Macchi? 


3d. (Shrove Tuesday.) At noon, by promise, Mrs. Turner 
and her daughter, and Mrs. Morrice, come along with Roger 
Pepys to dinner. We were as merry as I could be, having 
but a bad dinner for them; but so much the better, be- 
cause of the dinner which I must have at the end of this 
month. And here Mrs. The. showed me my name upon 
her breast as her Valentine, which will cost me 20s. After 
dinner, I took them down into the wine-cellar, and broached 
my tierce of claret for them. This afternoon, Roger Pepys 
tells me, that for certain the King is for all this very 
highly incensed at the Parliament’s late opposing the In- 
dulgence; which I am sorry for, and fear it will breed great 
discontent. 

5th. To the Lobby, and spoke with my cousin Roger, 
who is going to Cambridge to-morrow. In the Hall I 
do hear that the Catholiques are in great hopes for all 
this, and do set hard upon the King to get Indulgence. 
Matters, I hear, are all naught in Ireland, and the peo- 
ple, that is, the Papists, do cry out against the Commis- 
sioners sent by the King; so that they say the English 
interest will be lost there. To see my Lord Sandwich, 
who I found very ill, and by his cold being several 
nights hindered from sleep, he is hardly able to open his 
eyes, and is very weak and sad upon it, which troubled me 
much. 

6th. Up betimes, and by coach with four horses with Sir 
J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to Woolwich—a pleasant day, 
and so into Mr. Falconer’s, where we had some fish, which 
we brought with us dressed; and there dined with us his 
new wife, which had been his maid, but seems to be a gen- 
teel woman, well enough bred and discreet. This day it 
seems the House of Commons have been very high against 
the Papists, being incensed by the stir which they make 
for their having an Indulgence; which, without doubt, is a 
great folly in them to be so hot upon at this time, when 
they see how averse already the House have showed them- 
selves from it. This evening Mr. Povy tells me that my 
Lord Sandwich is this day so ill that he is much afraid of 
him, which puts me to great pain, not more for my own 
sake than for his poor family’s. 

“th. The. Turner come on foot in a frolick to beg me to 


p Ma le 


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get a place at sea for John, their man, which is a rogue; 
but, however it may be, the sea may do them good in re- 
claiming him, and therefore I will see what I can do. She 
dined with me; and after dinner I took coach and carried 
her home; in our way, in Cheapside, lighting and giving 
her a dozen pair of white gloves as my Valentine. Thence 
to my Lord Sandwich, who is gone to Sir W. Wheeler’s for 
his more quiet being, where he slept well last night and I 
took him, very merry, playing at cards, and much company 
with him. Creed told me how, for some words of my Lady 
Gerard’s,’ against my Lady Castlemaine to the Queen, the 
King did the other day apprehend* her in going out to dance 
with her at a ball, when she desired it as the ladies do, and 
is since forbid attending the Queen by the King; which 
is much talked of, my Lord her husband being a great 
favourite. 

8th. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall to-day: I heard Dr. 
King, Bishop of Chichester, make a good and eloquent 
sermon upon these words: ‘* They that sow in tears shall 
reap in joy.” Whence, the chapel in Lent being hung with 
black, and no anthem sung after sermon, as at other times, 
to my Lord Sandwich at Sir W. Wheeler’s. I found him 
out of order, thinking himself to be in a fit of ague. After 
dinner up to my Lord, there being Mr. Rumball. My 
Lord, among other discourse, did tell us of his great diffi- 
cultys passed in the business of the Sound, and of his 
receiving letters from the King there, but his sending 
them by Whetstone was a great folly; and the story how 
my Lord being at dinner with Sydney,® one of his fellow 
plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy, did see Whetstone, 
and put off his hat three times to him, and the fellow would 
not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly 
humour, of which he was full, and bid Sydney take notice 
of him too, when, at the very time he had letters* in his 


1See note, Jan. 1, 1662-3, ante. 


?Sic orig.: probably the word should be reprehend, and denied, in 
the following line, should, perhaps, be substituted for desired. 


®’The well-known Algernon Sidney, one of the Ambassadors sent to 
Sweden and Denmark by Richard Cromwell. 


‘These letters are in Thurloe’s State Papers, vol. vii. One was from 
the King, the other from Chancellor Hyde, 


396 DIARY OF [11th March, 


pocket from the King, as it proved afterwards. And Syd- 
ney afterwards did find it out at Copenhagen, the Dutch 
Commissioners telling him how my Lord Sandwich had de- 
sired one of their ships to carry back Whetstone to Lubeck, 
he being come from Flanders from the King. But I cannot 
but remember my Lord’s equanimity in all these affairs with 
admiration. 

9th. About noon, Sir J. Robinson, Lord Mayor, desiring 
way through the garden from the Tower, called in at the 
office, and there invited me and Sir W. Pen, who happened 
to be in the way, to dinner, and we did go: and there had 
a great Lent dinner of fish, little flesh. There dined with 
us to-day Mr. Slingsby’ of the Mint, who showed us all the 
new pieces, both gold and silver, examples of them all, that 
were made for the King by Blondeau’s way;? and com- 
pared them with those made for Oliver. The pictures of 
the latter made by Symons,’ and of the King by one Rotyr,* 
a German, I think, that dined with us also. He extols 
those of Rotyr above the others; and, indeed, I think they 
are the better, because the sweeter of the two; but, upon 
my word, those of the Protector are more like in my mind 
than the King’s, but both very well worth seeing. The 
crownes of Cromwell are now sold, it seems, for 25s. and 30s. 
a-piece.” 


11th. News by Mr. Wood that Butler, our chief wit- 


1Master of the Mint, frequently mentioned by Evelyn. 


?There is an account of this matter in Hawkins’ English Coins, pp. 
213, 214. 


’Thomas Simons, an Engraver of coins and medals, and the greatest 
of English die sinkers. Ob. 1665. 


4There were three brothers named Rotier, all Medallists; Philip 
introduced the likeness of Frances Stuart in the figure of Britannia. 


5 Although modern numismatists may smile at the preference given 
by Mr. Slingsby to Rotier’s coins, Pepys’s remark that Oliver’s crowns 
were then selling at 25s. or 30s. is very curious, for it is to this day 
considered doubtful whether these beautiful pieces by Simons were 
current coin or pattern pieces. Snelling, in his Silver Coinage, 1762, 
calls them “very scarce,” and so they remain, as the prices which 
they still bring at sales seem to show, varying from 2/. 10s. to 111, 
according to condition. 

Mr. Joseph Gibbs, of the Inner Temple, who kindly furnished the 
above remarks, has one of the crowns without any flaw, for which he 


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ness against Field, was sent by him to New England con- 
trary to our desire, which made me mad almost; and so 
Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and I dined together at Trinity 
House. 

12th. My uncle Thomas and his son do order their 
tenants to pay their rents to us, which pleases me 
well. 

13th. To Mrs. Hunt’s, and there found my wife, and so 
took them up by coach, and carried them to Hide Park, 
where store of coaches and good faces. 

15th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and with my wife and Ash- 
well the first time to church, where our pew so full with 
Sir J. Minnes’s sister and her daughter, that I perceive, 
when we come altogether, some of us must be shut out, 
but I suppose we shall come to some order what to do 
therein. 

16th. to the Duke, where we met of course, and talked 
of our Navy matters. Then to the Commission of Tangier, 
and there had my Lord Peterborough’s commission read 
over; and Mr. Secretary Bennet did make his querys upon 
it, in order to the drawing one for my Lord Rutherford 
more regularly, that being a very extravagant thing. Here 
long discoursing upon my Lord Rutherford’s dispatch, and 
so broke up. Mr. Coventry and I discoursed how the 
Treasurer doth intend to come to pay in course, which is 
the thing of the world that will do the King the greatest 
service in the Navy, and which joys my heart to hear of. 
He tells me of the business of Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. 
Pen; which, he said, was chiefly to make Mr. Pett’s being 
joyned with Sir W. Batten to go down the better. And 
how he well sees that neither the one nor the other can 
do their duties without help. To my wife at my Lord’s 
lodgings, where I heard Ashwell play first upon the harp- 


paid 4]. 18s.; and Mr. Cureton, the coin collector, had six sets of these 
monies at the time he was robbed and nearly murdered, in the winter 
of 1850. Pepys’s evidence of the high value of the crowns in 1663, 
strengthens the idea that they were pattern pieces only : there is a tra- 
dition, that the die became cracked across the neck after a few impres- 
sions were struck, which having been considered ominous, the issue 
was stopped; but the truth of the story must still remain matter of 
conjecture. 


398 DIARY OF [17th March, 


sichon, and I find she do play pretty well. Thence home 
by coach, buying at the Temple the printed virginall-book 
for her. 

17th. To St. Margaret’s Hill, in Southwark, where the 
Judge of the Admiralty come,’ and the rest of the Doctors 
of the Civill law, and some other Commissioners, whose 
Commission of Oyer and Terminer was read, and then the 
charge, given by Dr. Exton,’ which methought was some- 
what dull, though he would seem to intend it to be very rhe- 
toricall, saying that Justice had two wings, one of which 
spread itself over the land, and the other over the water, 
which was this Admiralty Court. ‘That being done, and 
the jury called, they broke up, and to dinner to a taverne 
hard by, where a great dinner and I with them; but I per- 
ceive that this Court is yet but in its infancy: as to its 
rising again, and their design and consultation was—I 
could overhear them—how to proceed with the most so- 
lemnity, and spend time, there being only two businesses to 
do, which of themselves could not spend much time. In 
the afternoon to the court again, where, first, Abraham, the 
boatswain of the King’s pleasure-boat, was tried for drown- 
ing a man; and next, Turpin, accused by our wicked rogue 
Field for selling the King’s timber; but, after full examina- 
tion, they were both acquitted, and so I was glad of the 
first, for the saving of the man’s life; so I did take the 
other as a very good fortune to us; for, if Turpin had 
been found guilty, it would have sounded very ill in the 
ears of all the world, in the business between Field and us. 
Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor’s [Sir John Robin- 
son], where we found my Lord with Colonel Strangways* 
and Sir Richard Floyd,* Parliament-men, in the cellar 
drinking, where we sat with them, and then up; and by 
and by come in Sir Richard Ford. We had many dis- 
courses, but from all of them I do find Sir R. Ford a very 
able man of his brains and tongue, and a scholler. But my 
Lord Mayor a-talking, bragging, buffleheaded fellow, that 


1The old Admiralty Court, then held at the Marshalsea, and finally 
abolished, 3lst December, 1849. 

2 Sir Thomas Exton, Dean of the Arches, and Judge of the Admiralty 
Court. 

*Giles Strangways, M.P. for Dorsetshire. 

‘Probably Sir Richard Lloyd, M.P. for Radnorshire. 


1662-63] SAMUEL PEPYS 899 


would be thought to have led all the City in the great busi- 
ness of bringing in the King, and that nobody understood 
his plot and the dark lanthorn he walked by; but he led 
them and ploughed with them as oxen and asses, his own 
words, to do what he had a mind; when in every discourse 
I observe him to be as very a coxcombe as I could have 
thought had been in the City. But he is resolved to do 
great matters in pulling down the shops quite through the 
City, as he hath done in many places, and will make a 
thorough passage quite through the City, through Canning 
Street, which indeed will be very fine. And then his pre- 
cept, which he, in vain-glory, said he had drawn up himself, 
and hath printed it, against coachmen and carrmen affront- 
ing of the gentry in the street; it is drawn so like a fool, 
and some faults were openly found in it, that I believe he 
will have so much wit as not to proceed upon it, though it 
be printed. Here we staid talking till eleven at night, Sir 
R. Ford breaking to my Lord Mayor our business of our 
patent to be Justices of the Peace in this City, which he 
struck at mightily; but however, Sir R. Ford knows him to 
be a fool, and so in his discourse he made him appear, and 
cajoled him into a consent to it: but so as I believe when 
he comes to his right mind to-morrow, he will be of another 
opinion: and though Sir R. Ford moved it very weightily 
and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared now. But 
to see how he rants, and pretends to sway all the City in 
the Court of Aldermen, and says plainly that they cannot 
do, nor will he suffer them to do, any thing but what he 
pleases ; nor is there any officer of the City but of his putting 
in; nor any man that could have kept the City for the King 
thus well and long but him. And if the country can be pre- 
served, he will undertake that the City shall not dare to 
stir again. When I am confident there is no man almost in 
the City cares for him, nor hath he brains to outwit any 
ordinary tradesman. 

18th. This day my tryangle, which was put in tune yes- 
terday, did please me very well—Ashwell playing upon it 
pretty well. 

19th. After doing my own business in my office, writing 
letters, &c. Home to supper and to bed, being weary, and 
vexed that I do not find other people so willing to do busi- 


400 DIARY OF [22d March, 


ness as myself, when I have taken pains to find out what in 
the yards is wanting and fitting to to be done. 

20th. In Fleet Street, bought me a little sword, with gilt 
handle, cost me 23s., and silk stockings to the colour of my 
riding cloth suit cost me 15s., and bought me a belt there 
cost 15s. Meeting with Mr. Kirton’s kinsman in Paul’s 
Church Yard, he and I to a coffee-house; where I hear how 
there had like to have been a surprizall of Dublin by some 
discontented Protestants, and other things of like nature; 
and it seems the Commissioners have carried themselves so 
high for the Papists that the others wiil not endure it. Hew- 
lett and some others are taken and clapped up; and they 
say the King hath sent over to dissolve the Parliament there, 
who went very high against the Commissioners. Pray God 
send all well! 

21st. By appointment our full board met, and Sir Philip 
Warwick and Sir Robert Long* come from my Lord Trea- 
surer to speak with us about the state of the debts of the 
Navy; and how to settle it, so as to begin upon the new 
foundation of 200,0001. per annum, which the King is now 
resolved not to exceed. 

22d. (Lord’s day.) Wrote out our bill for the Parliament 
about our being made Justices of Peace in the City. So 
to church, where a dull formall fellow that prayed for 
the Right Hon. John Lord Barkeley, Lord President of 
Connaught, &c. To my Lord Sandwich, and with him 
talking a good while; I find the Court would have this In- 
dulgence go on, but the Parliament are against it. Matters 
in Ireland are full of discontent. Thence with Mr. Creed 
to Captain Ferrers, where many fine ladies; the house well 
and prettily furnished. She lies in, in great state, Mr. 
G. Montagu, Colonel Williams,’ Cromwell that was, and 


1Sir Robert Long, who came of an ancient family in Wiltshire, had 
been Secretary to Charles II. during his exile, and was subsequently 
made Auditor of the Exchequer, and a Privy Councillor, and created 
a Baronet in 1662, with remainder to his nephew James. He died 
unmarried in 1673. 


2Colonel Williams—‘ Cromwell that was,” appears to have been 
Henry Cromwell, grandson of Sir Oliver Cromwell, and first cousin, 
once removed, to the Protector. He was seated at Bodsey House, in 
the Parish of Ramsey, which had been his father’s residence, and held 
the commission of a Colonel. He served in several Parliaments for 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 401 


Mrs. Wright as proxy for my Lady Jemimah, were witnesses. 
Very pretty and plentiful entertainment. My coach cost 
me 7s. 

23d. This day Greatorex brought me a very pretty 
weather-glasse for heat and cold. 

24th. To my office, where we sat, and among things, had 
Cooper’s' tried against Captain Holmes, but I find Cooper a 
fuddling, troublesome fellow, though a good artist. 

25th. To the Sun Taverne, to my Lord Rutherford, and 
dined with him, and some other of his officers, and Scotch 
gentlemen, of fine discourse and education. My Lord used 
me with great respect, and discoursed upon his business as 
with one that he did esteem. By and by he went away, 
forgetting to take leave of me, my back being turned, look- 
ing upon the aviary, which is there very pretty, and the 
birds begin to sing well this spring. This evening come 
Captain [Edward] Grove about hiring ships for Tangier. I 
did hint to him my desire that I could make some lawfull 
profit thereof, which he promises. 

26th. This day is five years since it pleased God to pre- 
serve me at my being cut of the stone, of which I bless God 
I am in all respects well. This morning came a new cooke- 
maid at 41. per annum, the first time I ever did give so much. 
She did live last at my Lord Monk’s house. 

29th. (Lord’s day.) After dinner, in comes Mr. Moore, 
and sat and talked with us a good while; among other things 
telling me, that neither my Lord nor he are under appre- 
hensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons, con- 
cerning resumption of Crowne lands. 

April Ist. I went to the Temple, to my cozen Roger 
Pepys, to see and talk with him a little; who tells me that, 
with much ado, the Parliament do agree to throw down 
Popery: but he says it is with so much spite and passion, 


Huntingdonshire, voting, in 1660, for the restoration of the monarchy; 
and as he knew the name of Cromwell would not be grateful to the 
Court, he disused it, and assumed that of Williams, which had belonged 
to his ancestors; and he is so styled in a list of Knights of the proposed 
Order of the Royal Oak. He died at Huntingdon, 3rd August, 1673.— 
Abridged from Noble’s Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. i. p. 70. 


1Some word is omitted in the MS., without which the sentence is 
incomplete. Cooper was the person who gave Pepys lessons in arith- 
metic. 


VOL. I. DD 


402 DIARY OF [3d April, 


and an endeavour of bringing all Non-conformists into the 
same condition, that he is afraid matters will not yet go 
so well as he could wish. Home, calling on the virginall 
maker, buying a rest for myself to tune my tryangle, and 
taking one of his people along with me to put it in tune 
once more, by which I learned how to go about it myself for 
the time to come. To my office all the afternoon: Sir 
J. Minnes like a mad coxcomb did swear and stamp, swear- 
ing that Commissioner Pett hath still the old heart against 
the King that ever he had, and that this was his envy against 
his brother that was to build the ship, and all the damn- 
able reproaches in the world, at which I was ashamed, but 
said little; but upon the whole, I find him still a fool, 
led by the nose by stories told by Sir W. Batten, whether 
with or without reason. So, vexed in my mind to see things 
ordered so unlike gentlemen or men of reason, I went 
home. 

2d. Sir W. Pen told me, that this day the King hath 
sent to the House his concurrence wholly with them against 
the Popish priests, Jesuits, &c., which gives great content 
and I am glad of it. 

8rd. To White Hall and to Chappell, which being most 
monstrous full, I could not go into my pew, but sat among 
the quire. Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman, preached a most 
admirable, good, learned, and most severe sermon, yet 
comicall, upon the words of the woman, “ Blessed is the 
womb that bare thee, and the paps that give thee suck: and 
he answered, nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the 
word of God, and keepeth it.”’ He railed bitterly ever and 
anon against John Calvin, and his brood, the Presbyterians, 
and against the present terme, now in use, of “ tender 
consciences.” He ripped up Hugh Peters (callmg him 
the execrable skellum') his preaching, stirring up the maids 
of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles. I met 
Captain Grove, who did give me a letter directed to myself 
from himself. I discerned money to be in it, and took it, 
knowing as I found it to be, the proceed of the place I have 
got him to be, the taking up of vessels for Tangier. But 
I did not open it till I come home—not looking into it tll 
all the money was out, that I might say I saw no money in 

1 Villain—Johnson. Scoundrel—Skinner, 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 403 


the paper, if ever I should be questioned about it. There 
was a piece in gold, and 4/. in silver. To the Tangier 
Committee, where we find ourselves at a great stand; the 
establishment being but 70,0001. per annum, and the forces 
to be kept in the town at the least estimate that my Lord 
Rutherford can be brought to bring is 53,0001. The charge 
of this year’s work of the Mole will be 13,0001.; besides 
10001. a-year to my Lord Peterborough as a pension, and 
the fortifications and contingencys, which puts us to a 
great stand. I find at Court that there is some bad news 
from Ireland of an insurrection of the Catholiques there, 
which puts them into an alarme. I hear also in the City 
that for certain there is an embargo upon all our ships 
in Spayne, upon this action of my Lord Windsor’s at Cuba, 
which signifies little or nothing, but only he hath a mind 
to say he hath done something before he comes back 
again. 

4th. After dinner to Hide Parke; Mrs. Wright and I in 
one coach, and all the rest of the women in Mrs. Turner’s; 
Roger Pepys being gone in haste to the Parliament about 
the carrying this business of the Papists, in which it seems 
there is a great contest on both sides. At the Parke was 
the King, and in another coach my Lady Castlemaine, they 
greeting one another at every turn. This being my feast, 
in lieu of what I should have had a few days ago, for the 
cutting of the stone, very merry at, before, and after dinner, 
and the more for that my dinner was great, and most 
neatly dressed by our own only mayde. We had a fricasee 
of rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three carps 
in a dish, a great dish of a side of lamb, a dish of roasted 
pigeons, a dish of four lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey pie, 
a most rare pie, a dish of anchovies, good wine of several 
sorts, and all things mighty noble, and to my great 
content. 

6th. To the Committee of Tangier, where I found, to my 
great joy, my Lord Sandwich, the first time I have seen 
him abroad these some months, being it seems this night to 
go to Kensington, or Chelsey, where he hath taken a lodg- 
ing for a while to take the ayre. 

8th. By water to White Hall, to chapel; where preached 
Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached the sermon so 

ppd2 


404 DIARY OF [13th April, 


much cried up, before the King against the Papists. His 
matter was the Devil tempting our Saviour, being carried 
into the Wilderness by the Spirit. And he hath as much 
of natural eloquence as most men that ever I heard in my 
life, mixed with so much learning. After sermon, I went 
up and saw the ceremony of the Bishop of Peterborough’s 
paying homage upon the knee to the King, while Sir H. 
Bennet, Secretary, read the King’s grant of the Bishopric 
of Lincolne, to which he is translated. His name is Dr. 
Lany.* Here I also saw the Duke of Monmouth, with his 
Order of the Garter, the first time I ever saw it. I hear 
that the University of Cambridge did treat him a little 
while since with all the honour possible, with a comedy at 
Trinity College, and banquet; and made him Master of 
Arts there: all which, they say, the King took very 
well, Dr. Raynbow,’ Master of Magdalene, being now Vice- 
Chancellor. 

10th. After great expectation from Ireland, and long 
stop of letters, there is good news come, that all is quiett, 
though some stir hath been, as was reported. To the Royal 
Duke Taverne, in Lombarde Streete, where Alexander 
Broome® the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe, 
if he be not a little conceited. With my wife, and walked 
to the New Exchange. There laid out 10s. upon 
pendents and painted leather gloves, very pretty and all the 
mode. 

12th. (Lord’s day.) Got a coach to Gray’s Inn Walks, 
where some handsome faces. Coming home to-night, a 
drunken boy was carrying by our constable to our new 
pair of stocks to hansel them, being a new pair, and very 
handsome. 

13th. To the Tangier Committee, where we had very fine 


1 Benjamin Lany, S.T.P., Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I., made 
Bishop of Peterborough, 1660, translated to Lincoln, 1662-3, and to 
Ely, 1667. Ob. 1674. 


? Edward Rainbow, Chaplain to the King, and Dean of Peterborough, 
and, in 1664, Bishop of Carlisle. Ob. 1684. 


8 Alexander Brome, an attorney in the Lord Mayor’s Court, author 
of Loyal Songs and Madrigals, much sung by the Cavaliers, and of a 
translation of portions of Horace. His death is recorded in the 
Diary on the 3rd July, 1666. He was regretted as an agreeable com- 
panion. 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 405 


discourse from Dr. Walker and Wiseman,’ civilians, against 
our erecting a court-merchant at Tangier, and well answered 
by my Lord Sandwich, whose speaking I never till now ob- 
served so much to be very good. 

14th. By barge to Woolwich, to see “ The Royall James ” 
launched, where she hath been under repair a great while. 


. Then to Mr. Falconer’s, to a dinner of fish of our own 


sending, and when it is just ready to come upon the table, 
word is brought that the King and Duke are come, so they 
all went away to shew themselves, while I staid, and had a 
little dish or two by myself, and by the time I had dined, 
they come again, having gone to little purpose, the King, 
I believe, taking little notice of them. And so home, the 
ship well launched. Sir G. Carteret tells me to-night that 
he perceives the Parliament is likely to make a great bustle 
before they will give the King any money; will call all 
things in question; and, above all, the expences of the Navy; 
and do enquire into the King’s expences everywhere, and 
into the truth of the report of people being forced to sell 
their bills at 15 per cent. losse in the Navy; and, lastly, 
that they are in a very angry pettish mood at present, and 
not likely to be better. 

16th. Met to pass Mr. Pitt’s, Sir J. Lawson’s Secretary 
and Deputy-Treasurer, accounts for the voyage last to the 
Streights, wherein the demands are strangely irregular, and 
I dare not oppose it alone; but God knows, it troubles my 
heart to see it, and to see the Comptroller, whose duty it is, 
to make no more matter of it. 

17th. It being Good Friday, our dinner was only sugar- 
sopps and fish; the only time that we have had a Lenten 
dinner all this Lent. To Paul’s Church Yard, to cause the 
title of my English “ Mare Clausum” to be changed, and 
the new title, dedicated to the King, to be put to it, be- 
cause I am ashamed to have the other seen dedicated to the 
Commonwealth. 

19th. (Easter-day.) Up, and this day put on my close- 
kneed coloured suit, which, with new stockings of the 
colour, with belt, and new gilt-handled sword, is very 
handsome. To church, where the young Scotchman preach- 
ing, I slept awhile. After supper, fell in discourse of 

tAfterwards Sir William Walker and Sir Robert Wiseman. 


406 DIARY OF [23d April, 


dancing, and I find that Ashwell hath a very fine carriage, 
which makes my wife almost ashamed of herself to see 
herself so outdone, but to-morrow she begins to learn to 
dance for a month or two. Will being gone, with my leave, 
to his father’s this day for a day or two, to take physique 
these holidays. 

20th. To Mr. Grant’s. There saw his prints, which he 
shewed me, and indeed are the best collection of anything 
almost that ever I saw, there being the prints of most of 
the greatest houses, churches, and antiquitys in Italy and 
France, and brave cutts. I had not time to look them over 
as I ought. With Sir G. Carteret and Sir John Minnes to 
my Lord Treasurer’s, thinking to have spoken about getting 
money for paying the Yards; but we found him with some 
ladies at cards: and so, it being a bad time to speak, we 
parted. This day the little Duke of Monmouth was marryed 
at White Hall, in the King’s chamber; and to-night is a 
great supper and dancing at his lodgings near Charing Cross. 
I observed his coate at the tail of his coach: he gives the 
arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon 
some other fields; but what it is that speaks him being a 
bastard I know not. 

Q1st. I ruled with red ink my English “ Mare Clausum,” 
which, with the new orthodox title, makes it now very hand- 
some. 

22d. To my uncle Wight’s, by invitation, where we had 
but a poor dinner, and not well dressed; besides, the very 
sight of my aunt’s hands, and greasy manner of carving, did 
almost turn my stomach. After dinner, to the King’s play- 
house, where we saw but part of ‘‘ Witt without Money,”” 
which I do not like much—it costing me four half-crowns 
for myself and company. 

23d. St. George’s day and Coronacion, the King and 


1The arms granted to the Duke of Monmouth, 8th April, 1665, were 
Quarterly, i. and iv.; Ermine, on a pile gu. three lions passant gardant 
or; ii. and iii., or, an inescutcheon of France, within a double tressure 
flory counter flory, gu. On the 22nd of April, 1667, another grant 
was made to the Duke of the arms of Charles II., with a baton sinister 
arg.; over all, an inescutcheon of Scott. The present Duke of Buc- 
cleuch bears these arms quarterly. It is quite clear that Pepys knew 
nothing of heraldry. 


7A comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. Mohun played Valentine, 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 407 


Court being at Windsor, at the installing of the King of 
Denmarke by proxy, and the Duke of Monmouth. 

25th. In the evening, merrily practising the dance which 
my wife had begun to learn this day of Mr. Pembleton, but 
I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is 
conceited that she do well already, though I think no such 
thing. At Westminster Hall, this day, I bought a book 
lately printed and licensed by Dr. Stradling,’ the Bishop of 
London’s chaplain, being a book discovering the practices 
and designs of the papists—a very good book; but, foras- 
much as it touches one of the Queen-Mother’s father 
confessors, the Bishop, which troubles many good men and 
members of Parliament, hath called it in, which I am sorry 
for. Another book I bought, being a collection of many 
expressions of the great Presbyterian preachers upon public 
occasions, in the late times, against the King and his party, 
as some of Mr. Marshall, Case, Calamy, Baxter, &c.,* which 
is good reading now, to see what they then did teach, 
and the people believe, and what they would seem to be- 
lieve now. I did hear that the Queen is much grieved of 
late at the King’s neglecting her, he not having supped once 
with her this quarter of a year, and almost every night with 
my Lady Castlemaine, who hath been with him this St. 
George’s feast at Windsor, and come home with him last 
night; and, which is more, they say is removed as to her 
bed from her own home to a chamber in White Hall, next 
to the King’s own; which I am sorry to hear, though I love 
her much. 

26th. (Lord’s day.) 'Tom coming, with whom I was angry 
for his botching my camlott coat, to tell me that my father 
was at our church, I got me ready, and had a very good 
sermon of a country minister upon “© How blessed a thing it 
is for brethren to live together in unity.” My wife, Ashwell, 
and the boy and I, and the dog, over the water, and walked 


*George Stradling, D.D., in 1672 made Dean of Chichester. Ob. 
1688. 

2“ Evangelium Armatum. A Specimen, or Short Collection of several 
Doctrines and Positions destructive to our Government, both Civil and 
Ecclesiastical, preached and vented by the known leaders and abettors 
of the pretended Reformation, such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. 
Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall and others.” London: 
Printed for William Garret, 1663, 4to, 


408 DIARY OF [29th April, 


to half-way house, and beyond into the fields, gathering of 
cowslipps, and so to half-way house, with some cold lamb 
we carried with us, and there supped, and had a most pleasant 
walk back again, Ashwell all along telling us some parts 
of their maske at Chelsey school, which was very pretty 


and I find she hath a most prodigious memory, remem- ~ 


bering so much of things acted six or seven years ago. So 
home, being sleepy, without prayers to-bed, for which God 
forgive me! 

27th. Will Griffin tells me this morning that Captain 
Browne, Sir W. Batten’s brother-in-law, is dead of a blow 
given him two days ago by a seaman, a servant of his, being 
drunk, with a stone striking him on the forehead, for which 
I am sorry, he having a good woman and several small 
children. By water to White Hall; but found the Duke of 
York gone to St. James’s for this summer; and thence with 
Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen up to the Duke’s closet, and 
a good while with him about Navy business. And so I to 
White Hall, and there a long while with my Lord Sandwich, 
discoursing about his debt to the Navy, wherein he hath 
given me some things to resolve him in. The Queen, which 
I did not know, it seems, was at Windsor, at the late St. 
George’s feast there; and the Duke of Monmouth dancing 
with her, with his hat in his hand, the King came in and 
kissed him, and made him put on his hat, which every body 
took notice of. 

29th. To Chelsey, where we found my Lord all alone 
with one joynt of meat at dinner, and mightily extolling 
the manner of his retirement, and the goodness of his diet: 
the mistress of the house, Mrs. Becke, having been a woman 
of good condition heretofore, a merchant’s wife, hath all 
things most excellently dressed; among others, her cakes 
admirable, and so good, that my Lord’s words were, they 
were fit to present to my Lady Castlemaine. From or- 
dinary discourse my Lord fell to talk of other matters to me, 
of which chiefly the second part of the fray, which he told 
me a little while since of, between Mr. Edward Montagu 
and himself; that he hath forborn coming to him almost 
two months, and do speak not only slightly of my Lord 
every where, but hath complained to my Lord Chancellor 
of him, and arrogated all that ever my Lord hath done 


—_ — SS SS SSS 


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to be only by his direction and persuasion. Whether he 
hath done the like to the King or no, my Lord knows not; 
by my Lord hath been with the King since, and finds all 
things fair; and my Lord Chancellor hath told him of it; 
but he so much contemns Mr. Montagu, as my Lord knows 
himself very secure against anything the fool can do; and, 
notwithstanding all this, so noble is his nature, that he pro- 
fesses himself ready to show kindness and pity to Mr. 
Montagu on any occasion. My Lord told me of his pre- 
senting Sir H. Bennet with a gold cup of 100I., which he 
refuses, with a compliment; but my Lord would have been 
glad he had taken it, that he might have had some obli- 
gations upon him, which he thinks possible the other may 
refuse to prevent it; not that he hath any reason to doubt 
his kindness. But I perceive great differences there are at 
Court; and Sir H. Bennet, and my Lord Bristol, and their 
faction, are likely to carry all things before them, which 
my Lord’s judgement is, will not be for the best, and 
particularly against the Chancellor, who, he tells me, is 
irrecoverably lost: but, however, that he do so not actually 
joyne in any thing against the Chancellor, whom he do 
own to be a most sure friend, and to have been his greatest; 
and therefore will not openly act in either, but passively 
carry himself even. The Queen, my Lord tells me, he 
thinks he hath incurred some displeasure with, for his kind- 
ness to his neighbour, my Lady Castlemaine. My Lord 
tells me he hath no reason to fall for her sake, whose wit, 
management, nor interest, is not likely to hold up any man, 
and therefore he thinks it not his obligation to stand for 
her, against his own interest. The Duke and Mr. Coventry 
my Lord sees he is very well with, and fears not but they 
will show themselves his very good friends, specially at this 
time, he being able to serve them, and they needing him, 
which he did not tell me wherein. Talking of the business 
of Tangier, he tells me that my Lord Teviott* is gone away 
without the least respect paid to him, nor indeed to any 
man, but without his commission; aud, if it be true what he 
says, having laid out seven or eight thousand pounds in 
commodities for the place; and besides having not only dis- 
obliged all the Commissioners for Tangier, but also Sir 
1See ante, p. 359, note. 


410 DIARY OF [29th April, 


Charles Barkeley the other day, who spoke in behalf of 
Colonel Fitz-Gerald, that having been deputy-governor 
there already, he ought to have expected and had the 
governorship upon the death or removal of the former 
Governor. And whereas it is said that he and his men are 
Irish, which is indeed the main thing that hath moved the 
King and Council to put in Teviott, to prevent the Irish 
having too great and the whole command there, under Fitz- 
Gerald; he further said, that there was never an English- 
man fit to command Tangier; my Lord Teviott answered 
yes, there were many, more fit than himself, or Fitz-Gerald 
either. So that Fitz-Gerald being so great with the Duke 
of York, and being already made deputy-governor, inde- 
pendent of my Lord Teviott, and he being also left here 
behind him for a while, my Lord Sandwich do think, that, 
putting all these things together, the few friends he hath 
left, and the ill posture of his affairs, my Lord Teviott is 
not a man of the conduct and management that either 
people take him to be, or is fit for the command of the place. 
And here, speaking of the Duke of York and Sir Charles 
Barkeley, my Lord tells me that he do very much. admire 
the good management, and discretion, and nobleness of the 
Duke, that however he may be led by him or Mr. Coventry 
singly in private, yet he did not observe that in public matters, 
but he did give as ready hearing and as good acceptance to 
any reasons offered by any other man against the opinions 
of them, as he did to them, and would concur in the prose- 
cution of it. Then we come to discourse upon his own sea- 
accompts, and come to a resolution how to proceed in them; 
wherein, though I offered him a way of evading the greatest 
part of his debt honestly, by making himself debtor to the 
Parliament, before the King’s time, which he might justly 
do, yet he resolved to go openly and nakedly in it, and put 
himself to the kindness of the King and Duke, which 
humour I must confess, and so did tell him, with which 
he was not a little pleased, had thriven very well with him, 
being known to be a man of candid and open dealing, 
without any private tricks or hidden designs, as other men 
commonly have in what they do. From that we had dis- 
course of Sir G. Carteret, and of many others; and upon the 
whole, I do find that it is a troublesome thing for a man of 


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any condition at Court to carry himself even, and without 
contracting envy or envyers; and that much discretion and 
dissimulation is necessary to do it. W. Howe and I went 
down and walked in the gardens, which are very fine, and a 
pretty fountayne, with which I was finely wetted, and up to 
a banquetting-house, with a very fine prospect. With Cap- 
tain Ferrers to my Lord, to tell him that my Lady Jemimah 
is come to town, and that Will Stankes is come with my 
father’s horses. 

30th. To dinner, where Mrs. Hunt, my father, and W. 
Stankes; but, Lord! what a stir Stankes makes, with his 
being crowded in the streets, and wearied in walking in 
London, and would not be wooed by my wife and Ashwell to 
go to a play, nor to White Hall, or to see the lyons,’ though 
he was carried in a coach. I never could have thought 
there had been upon earth a man so little curious in the 
world as he is. 

May Ist. After dinner, I got my father, brother Tom, and 
myself together, and I advised my father to good husbandry, 
and to be living within the compass of 501. a year, and all in 
such, kind words, as not only made both them but myself to 
weep. That being done, we all took horse, and I, upon a 
horse hired of Mr. Game, saw him out of London, at the end 
of Bishopsgate Street, and so I turned, and rode, with some 
trouble, through the fields, and then Holborne, &c., towards 
Hide Park, whither all the world, I think, are going; and in 
my going, almost thither, met W. Howe coming, galloping 
upon a little crop black nag, it seems, one that was taken in 
some ground of my Lord’s, by some mischance being left by 
his master, a thiefe—this horse being found with black cloth 
eares on, and a false mayne, having none of his own, and I 
back again with him to the Chequer, at Charing Crosse, and 
there put up my own dull jade, and by his advice saddled a 
delicate stone-horse of Captain Ferrers, and with that rid in 
state to the park, where none better mounted than I almost; 
but being in a throng of horses, seeing the King’s riders 
showing tricks with their managed horses, which were very 
strange, my stone-horse was very troublesome, and begun to 


1The lions were in the Tower; whence the word lionize, which may 
puzzle the etymologists of the next century, the menagerie no longer 
existing. 


412 DIARY OF [8d May, 


fight with other horses, to the dangering him and myself; 
and with much ado I got out, and kept myself out of harm’s 
way. Here I saw nothing good—neither the King, nor my 
Lady Castlemaine, nor any great ladies or beauties being 
there, there being more pleasure a great deal at an ordinary 
day; or else those few good faces that there were choked up 
with the many bad ones, there being people of all sorts in 
coaches there, to some thousands. Going thither in the 
highway again, by the park gate, I met a boy in a sculler- 
boat, carried by a dozen people at least, rowing as hard as 
he could drive—it seems, upon some wager. By and by, 
about seven o’clock, homeward; and changing my _ horse 
again, I rode home, coaches going in great crowds to the 
further end of the town, almost. In my way, in Leadenhall 
Street, there was morris-dancing, which I have not seen a 
great while. So set my horse up at Games’s, paying 5s. for 
him, and went to hear Mrs. Turner’s daughter play on the 
harpsichon; but, Lord! it was enough to make any man 
sick to hear her; yet was I forced to commend her highly. 
This day, Captain Grove sent me a side of pork, which was 
the oddest present, sure, that was ever made any man; and 
the next, I remember I told my wife, I believed would be a 
pound of candles, or a shoulder of mutton; but the fellow 
do it in kindness, and is one I am beholden to. So to bed, 
very weary, and a little galled, for lack of riding, praying to 
God for a good journey to my father, of whom I am afraid, 
he being so lately ill. 

3d. (Lord’s day.) To church, where Sir W. Pen shewed 
me the young lady which young Dawes," that sits in the new 
corner-pew in the church, hath stole away from Sir Andrew 
Rickard,’ her guardian, worth 10001. per annum, present, 


1 John, son of Sir Thomas Dawes, of Putney. He married Christian, 
daughter and heir of William Lyons, Esq., of Barking, Essex, and was 
created a baronet in June, 1663. His third son, Sir William Dawes, 
became Archbishop of York. 


2Sir Andrew Rickard, an eminent London merchant, chairman of 
the East India and Turkey companies; knighted, 10th July, 1662. He 
was one of the principal inhabitants of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, in the 
church of which parish he lies buried, and there his statue is still te 
be seen. He died 6th September, 1672, wt. suze 68. He was father- 
inch to John, Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, frequently mentioned by 
epys. 


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good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and hand- 
some lady; he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However, he 
got this good luck to get her, which methinks I could envy 
him, with all my heart. 

4th. The dancing-master [Pembleton] come, whom stand- 
ing by, seeing him instructing my wife, when he had done 
with her, he would needs have me try the steps of a coranto; 
and what with his desire and my wife’s importunity, I did 
begin, and then was obliged to give him entry money 10s., 
and am become his scholler. The truth is, I think it is a 
thing very useful for any gentleman. To St. James’s, where 
Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen, and I staid for the Duke’s coming 
in, but not coming, we walked to White Hall; and meeting 
the King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr. Coventry 
and he talking of building a new yacht out of his private 
purse, he having some contrivance of his own. The talk 
being done, we fell off to White Hall, leaving the King in 
the Park; and going back, met the Duke going towards 
St. James’s to meet us. So he turned back again, and to 
his closet at White Hall; and there, my Lord Sandwich 
present, we did our weekly errand, and so broke up; and I 
to the garden with my Lord Sandwich; after we had sat an 
hour at the Tangier Committee, and after talking largely of 
his own businesses, we began to talk how matters are at 
Court: and though he did not flatly tell me any such thing, 
yet I do suspect that all is not kind between the King and 
the Duke, and that the King’s fondness to the little Duke 
do occasion it; and it may be that there is some fear of his 
being made heire to the Crown. But this my Lord did not 
tell me, but is my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor 
is without doubt falling past hopes. 
_ 5th. With Sir J. Minnes, he telling many old stories of 
the Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the beginning of 
the late troubles; and I am troubled at my heart to think, 
and shall hereafter cease to wonder at the bad success of the 
King’s cause, when such a knave as he, if it be true what he 
says, had the whole management of the fleet, and the design 
of putting out of my Lord Warwicke,’ and carrying the fleet 


* Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick of that family, Admiral for 
the Parliament. Ob. 1658. 


414 DIARY OF [8th May 
to the King, wherein he failed most fatally, to the King’s 


ruine. 

6th. To the Exchange with Creed, where we met Sir J. 
Minnes, who tells us, in great heat, that the Parliament will 
make mad work; that they will render all men incapable of 
any military or civil employment that have borne arms in 
the late troubles against the King, excepting some persons; 
which, if it be so, as I hope it is not, will give great cause 
of discontent, and I doubt will have but bad effects. To 
the Trinity House, and there dined, where among other dis- 
courses worth hearing among the old seamen, they tell us 
that they have catched often, in Greenland, whales with the 
iron grapnells that had formerly been struck into their 
bodies covered over with fat; that they have had eleven 
hogsheads of oyle out of a tongue of a whale. 

7th. Sir Thomas Crewe this day tells me that the Queen, 
hearing that there was 40,000/. per annum brought into her 
account among the other expences of the Crown before the 
Committee of Parliament, she took order to let them know 
that she hath yet, for the payment of her whole family, re- 
ceived but 40001., which is a notable act of spirit, and I 
believe is true. To my Lord Crewe’s, and there dined with 
him. He tells me of the order the House of Commons have 
made for the drawing an Act for the rendering noncapable 
of preferment or employment in the State, but who have 
been loyall and constant to the King and Church; which 
will be fatal to a great many, and makes me doubt lest I 
myself, with all my innocence during the late times, should 
be brought in, being employed in the Exchequer; but, I 
hope, God will provide for me. 

8th. By water to the Strand, and there viewed the Queen- 
Mother’s works at Somerset House,’ and thence to the new 
playhouse, but could not get in to see it; so to visit my 
Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her; but 
lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court 
to set her off. Took my wife and Ashwell to the Theatre 
Royall, being the second day of its being opened. The 


house is made with extraordinary good conveniences, and yet 


*Somerset House was greatly improved for Henrietta-Maria. The 
river front was built by Inigo Jones, and the County Fire Office, in 
Regent Street, is a copy of it. 


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hath some faults, as the narrowness of the passages in and 
out of the pit, and the distance from the stage to the boxes, 
which I am confident cannot hear; but for all other things 
is well; only, above all, the musique being below, and most 
of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing of 
the bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure 
must be mended. The play was “The Humorous Lieu- 
tenant,” a play that hath little good in it, nor much in the 
very part which, by the King’s command, Lacy now acts, 
instead of Clun. In the dance, the tall devil’s actions was 
very pretty. The play being done, we home by water, 
having been a little shamed that my wife and woman were 
in such a pickle, all the ladies being finer and better dressed 
in the pit than they used, I think, to be. To my office, to 
set down this day’s passage; and, though my oath against 
going to plays do not oblige me against this house, because 
it was not then in being, yet, believing that at the time my 
meaning was against all public houses, I am resolved to 
deny myself the liberty of two plays at Court, which are in 
arreare to me for the months of March and April. At 
supper comes Pembleton, and afterwards we all up to 
dancing till late. They say that I am like to make a 
dancer. 

9th. At Mr. Jervas’s, my old barber, I did try two or 
three borders and perriwiggs, meaning to wear one; and yet 
I have no stomach [for it], but that the pains of keeping 
my hair clean is so great. He trimmed me, and at last 
I parted, but my mind was almost altered from my first 
purpose, from the trouble that I foresee will be in wearing 
them also. 

10th. (Lord’s day.) Put on a black cloth suit, with white 
lynings under all, as the fashion is to wear, to appear under 
the breeches. I walked to St. James’s, and was there at 
masse, and was forced in the crowd to kneel down: and 
masse being done, to the King’s Head ordinary, where many 
Parliament-men; and most of their talk was about the news 
from Scotland, that the Bishop of Galloway was besieged 
in his house by some women, and had like to have been 
outraged, but I know not how he was secured: which is 
bad news, and looks as it did in the beginning of the late 


416 DIARY OF [14th May, 


troubles. From thence they talked of rebellion; and I 
perceive they make it their great maxime to be sure to 
master the City of London, whatever comes of it or 
from it. After that to some other discourse, and among 
other things, talking of the way of Ordinaries, that it 


is very convenient, because a man knows what he hath to | 


pay: one did wish that, among many bad, we could learn 
her good things, of France, which were that we would not 
think it below the gentleman or person of honour at a 
taverne, to bargain for his meat before he eats it; and next, 
to take his servants without certificate from some friend or 
gentleman of his good behaviour and abilities. 

11th. On foot to Greenwich, where, going, I was set 
upon by a great dog, who got hold of my garters, and might 
have done me hurt; but, Lord! to see in what a maze I 
was, that having a sword about me, I never thought of it, 
or had the heart to make use of it, but might, for want of 
that courage, have been worried. With Sir W. Pen to St. 
James’s, where we attended the Duke of York: and, among 
other things, Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute 
about the different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. 
Creed at 4s. and 5d., and by Mr. Pitts at 4s. and 9d., which 
was the greatest husbandry to the King? he proposing that 
the greatest sum was; which is as ridiculous a piece of 
ignorance as could be imagined. However, it is to be 
argued at the Board, and reported to the Duke next week; 
which I shall do with advantage, I hope. I went home- 
ward, after a little discourse with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, 
who tells me that my Lady Castlemaine hath now got 
lodgings near the King’s chamber at Court; and that the 
other day Dr. Clarke and he did dissect two bodies, a man 
and a woman, before the King, with which the King was 
highly pleased. I called upon Mr. Crumlum, and did give 
him the 10s. remaining not laid out, of the 5/. I promised 
him for the School, with which he will buy strings, and 
golden letters upon the books I did give them. 

12th. A little angry with my wife for minding nothing 
now but the dancing-master, having him come twice a day, 
which is folly. 

14th. Met Mr. Moore; and with him to an ale-house in 


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Holborne; where in discourse he told me that he fears the 
King will be tempted to endeavour to setting the Crown 
upon the little Duke, which may cause troubles; which 
God forbid, unless it be his due! He told me my Lord do 
begin to settle to business again; and that the King did 
send for him the other day to my Lady Castlemaine’s, to 
play at cards, where he lost 50/.; for which I am sorry, 
though he says my Lord was pleased at it, and said he 
would be glad at any time to lose 501. for the King to send 
for him to play, which I do not so well like. This day we 
received a baskett from my sister Pall, made by her, of 
paper, which hath a great deal of labour in it for country 
innocent work. 

15th. I walked in the Parke, discoursing with the keeper 
of the Pell Mell, who was sweeping of it; who told me of 
what the earth is mixed that do floor the Mall, and that 
over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and spread to keep 
it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and 
deads the ball. Thence to Mr. Coventry; and, sitting by 
his bedside, he did tell me that he did send for me to 
discourse upon my Lord Sandwich’s allowances for his 
several pays, and what his thoughts are concerning his 
demands; which he could not take the freedom to do face 
to face, it being not so proper as by me: and did give me 
a most friendly and ingenuous account of all; telling me 
how unsafe at this juncture, while every man’s, and his 
actions particularly, are descanted upon, it is either for 
him to put the Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to 
desire any thing extraordinary, ’specially the King having 
been so bountifull already; which the world takes notice 
of, even to some repinings. All of which he did desire 
me to discourse to my Lord of; which I have undertaken 
to do. At noon by coach to my Lord Crewe’s, hearing 
that my Lord Sandwich dined there; where I told him 
what had passed between Mr. Coventry and myself; with 
which he was contented, though I could perceive not very 
well pleased. And I do believe that my Lord do find some 
other things go against his mind in the House; for, in the 
motion made the other day in the House by my Lord Bruce,’ 


1 Robert Bruce, second Earl of Elgin, created, in 1663-4, Baron and 


VOL. I. EE 


418 DIARY OF [15th May, 


that none be capable of employment but such as have 
been loyal and constant to the King and Church, that the 
General’ and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted; 
and my Lord Bruce did come since to my Lord, to clear 
himself that he meant nothing to his prejudice, nor could 
it have any such effect if he did mean it. After discourse 
with my Lord, to dinner with him; there dining there my 
Lord Montagu,’ of Boughton, Mr. William Montagu,’ his 
brother, the Queen’s Sollicitor, &c., and a fine dinner. 
Their talk about a ridiculous falling-out two days ago at 
my Lord of Oxford’s house, at an entertainment of his, 
there being there my Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey,* two of 
the Porters,’ my Lord Bellasses and others, where there 
were high words and some blows, and pulling off of perri- 
wiggs; till my Lord Monk took away some of their swords, 
and sent for some soldiers to guard the house till the fray 
was ended. ‘To such a degree of madness the nobility of 
this age is come! After dinner, I went up to Sir Thomas 
Crewe, who lies there not very well in his head, being 
troubled with vapours and fits of dizzinesse: and there I 
sat talking with him all the afternoon upon the unhappy 
posture of things at this time; that the King do mind 
nothing but pleasures, and hates the very sight or thoughts 
of business; that my Lady Castlemaine rules him, who, he 
sees, hath all the tricks of Aretin. If any of the sober 
counsellors give him good advice, and move him in any 
thing that is to his good and honour, the other part, which 
are his counsellors of pleasure, take him when he is with 
my Lady Castlemaine, and in a humour of delight, and 


Viscount Bruce, and Earl of Ailesbury (English honours). He was 
also a Privy-Councillor, and one of the Lords of the King’s Bed- 
chamber. He died in 1685, just after his appointment as Lord Chamber- 
lain to James II. * Monk. 

? Edward, second Lord Montagu, of Boughton, in 1664 succeeded 
his father, who had been created a Baron by James I., and died, 1683, 
leaving a son, afterwards Duke of Montagu. 

’ Afterwards Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Ob. 1707, zt. 89. 

“Montagu Bertie, second Earl of Lindsey, whose mother was Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Edward, first Lord Montagu of Boughton. 

* Charles and Thomas Porter. The latter was engaged in a fatal duel 


with Sir H. Bellasis. See 29th July, and 8th and 12th August, 
1667, 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 419 


then persuade him that he ought not to hear nor listen to 
the advice of those old dotards or counsellors that were 
heretofore his enemies: when, God knows! it is they that 
now-a-days do most study his honour. It seems the present 
favourites now are my Lord Bristoll, Duke of Buckingham, 
Sir H. Bennet, my Lord Ashley, and Sir Charles Barkeley ; 
who, among them, have cast my Lord Chancellor upon his 
back, past ever getting up again; there being now little 
for him to do, and he waits at Court attending to speak to 
the King as others do: which I pray God may prove of 
good effects, for it is feared it will be the same with my 
Lord Treasurer shortly. But strange to hear how my Lord 
Ashley, by my Lord Bristoll’s means, he being brought 
over to the Catholique party against the Bishops, whom he 
hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; not that 
he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishops; 
and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishop of London keeps as 
great with the King as ever, is got into favour, so much 
that, being a man of great business and yet of pleasure; 
and, drolling, too, he, it is thought, will be made Lord 
Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old 
man.’ My Lord Albemarle, I hear, do bear through and 
bustle among them, and will not be removed from the 
King’s good opinion and favour, through none of the 
Cabinett; but yet he is envied enough. It is made very 
doubtful whether the King do not intend the making of 
the Duke of Monmouth legitimate; but surely the Com- 
mons of England will never do it, nor the Duke of York 
suffer it, whose Lady, I am told, is very troublesome to 
him by her jealousy. But it is wonderfull that Sir Charles 
Barkeley should be so great still, not with the King, but 
Duke also; who did so stifly swear that he had intrigued 
with her. No care is observed to be taken of the main 
chance, either for maintaining of trade or opposing of fac- 
tions, which, God knows, are ready to break out, if any 
of them, which God forbid! should dare to begin; the 
King and every man about him minding so much their 
pleasures or profits. My Lord Hinchingbroke, I am told, 
hath had a mischance to kill his boy by his birding-piece 


The Earl of Southampton. 
EE2 


420 DIARY OF [15th May, 


going off as he was a-fowling. The gun was charged with 
small shot, and hit the boy in the face and about the 
temples, and he lived four days. In Scotland, it seems, 
for all the news-books tell us every week that they 
are all so quiet and every thing in the Church settled, 
the old woman had lke to have killed, the other day, 
the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the Churches 
of the whole kingdom conform. Strange were the effects 
of the late thunder and lightning about a week since 
at Northampton, coming with great rain, which caused 
extraordinary floods in a few houres, bearing away bridges, 
drowning horses, men, and cattle. Two men passing over 
a bridge on horseback, the arches before and behind them 
were borne away, and that left which they were upon: 
but, however, one of the horses fell over and was drowned. 
Stacks of faggots carried as high as a steeple, and other 
dreadful things; which Sir Thomas Crewe showed me letters 
to him about from Mr. Freemantle and others, that it is 
very true. The Portugalls have choused* us, it seems, in 
the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a great 
charge of our fleets being sent thither with full commission 
from the King of Portugall to receive it, the Governour, by 
some pretence or other, will not deliver it to Sir Abraham 
Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my Lord of Marl- 
borough ;? which the King takes highly ill, and I fear our 


1In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople 
to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian mer- 
chants out of 40001., before the arrival of his employer, and had de- 
camped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson’s “ Alchem- 
ist” appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:— 


HID What do you think of me? 
That I am a Chiaus? 
“ Face. What’s that? 


“D. The Turk was here. 
As one would say, do you think I am a Turk.” Alch. i, 2 


“The Turk,” says Mr. Gifford, “ was probably little conscious that he 
had enriched the language with a word, the etymology of which would 
mislead Upton and puzzle Dr. Johnson.” Hence, therefore, to chouse.— 
See Nares’s Glossary. 


2 James Ley, third Earl of Marlborough, killed in the great tis 
with the Dutch, 1665. : 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 421 


Queen will fare the worse for it. The Dutch decay there 
exceedingly, it being believed that their people will, revolt 
from them there, and they forced to give over their 
trade. Sir Thomas showed me his picture, and Sir An- 
thony Vandike’s, in crayon in little, done exceedingly 
well. 

16th. After dinner comes Pembleton again, and I did go 
up to them to practise, and did make an end of “ La 
Duchesse,”* which I think I should, with a little pains, do 
very well. 

17th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and in my chamber all the 
morning, preparing my great letters to my father, stating 
to him the perfect condition of our estate. 

18th. I walked to White Hall, and into the Park, seeing 
the Queen and Maids of Honour passing through the house, 
going to the Park. But above all, Mrs. Stuart is a fine 
woman, and they say now a common mistress to the King, 
as my Lady Castlemaine is; which is a great pity. Taking a 
coach to Mrs. Clerke’s—took her, and my wife, and Ashwell, 
and a Frenchman, a kinsman of her’s, to the. Park; where 
we saw many fine faces, and one exceeding handsome, in a 
white dress over her head, with many others very beautiful. 
Home, talking much of what we had observed to-day of the 
poor household stuff of Mrs. Clerke, and her show and 
flutter that she makes in the world; and pleasing myself in 
my own house and manner of living more than ever I did, 
by seeing how much better and more substantially I live 
than others do. 

19th. With Sir John Minnes to the Tower; and by Mr. 
Slingsby, and Mr. Howard, Comptroller of the Mint, we were 
shown the method of making this new money. That being 
done, the Comptroller would have us dine with him and his 
company, the King giving them a dinner every day. And 
very merry and good discourse upon the business we have 
been upon, and after dinner went to the Assay office, and 
there saw the manner of assaying of gold and silver, and 
how silver melted down with gold do part [upon] just being 
put into aqua-fortis, the silver turning into water, and the 
gold lying whole, in the very form it was put in, mixed of 


1The name of a dance. 


422 DIARY OF [19th May, 


gold and silver, which is a miracle; and to see no silver at 
all, but turned into water, which they can bring again into 
itself out of the water: and at table they told us of two 
cheats, the best I ever heard. One of a labourer discovered 
to convey away bits of silver cut out for pence by swallow- 
ing them, and so they could not find him out, though, of 
course, they searched all the labourers: but, having reason 
to doubt him, they did, by threats and promises, get him to 
confess, and did find 7/. of it in his house at one time. The 
other of one that got a way of coyning as good and passable, 
and large as the true money is, and yet saved fifty per cent. 
to himself, which was by getting moulds made to stamp 
groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg 
two of them, which I keep for rarities, that there is not 
better in the world, and is as good and better than those 
that commonly go, which was the only thing that they could 
find out to doubt them by, besides the number that the 
party do go to put off, and then, coming to the Comptroller 
of the Mint, he could not, I say, find out any other thing to 
raise any doubt upon, but only their being so truly round or 
near it. He was neither hanged nor burned; the cheat was 
thought so ingenious, and being the first time they could 
ever trap him in it, and so little hurt to any man in it, the 
money being as good as commonly goes. They now coyne 
between 16 and 24,000 pounds in a week. At dinner they 
did discourse very finely to us of the probability, that there 
is a vast deal of money hid in the land, from this: that in 
King Charles’s time there was near ten millions of money 
coyned, besides what was then in being of King James’s and 
Queen Elizabeth’s, of which there is a good deal at this day 
in being. Next, that there was about 750,0001. coyned of the 
Harp and Crosse money,’ and of this there was 500,000I. 
brought in upon its being called in. And from very good argu- 
ments they find that there cannot be less of it in Ireland and 


1This was the money coined by the Commonwealth, having on one 
side a shield, bearing the Cross of St. George, and on the other a shield, 
bearing a Harp.—Hawkins’s English Silver Coins, p. 208. See also 
May 13, 1660, ante, where the Harp was taken out of all the naval flags, 
no doubt because Charles II. objected to the arms used during the 
Protectorate. 


| 
1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 423 


Scotland than 100,0001. ; so that there is but 150,000. missing ; 
and of that, suppose that there should be not above 50,0001. 
still remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or hoarded 
up in England, there will then be but 100,000/. left to be 
thought to have been transported. Now, if 750,000I. in 
twelve years’ time lost but a 100,000/. in danger of being 
transported, then 10,000,0001. in thirty-five years’ time will 
have lost but 3,888,8801. and odd pounds; and, as there is 
650,000/. remaining after twelve years’ time in England, so, 
after thirty-five years’ time, which was within this two 
years, there ought in proportion to have been resting 
6,111,120/. or thereabouts, besides King James and Queen 
Elizabeth’s money. Now, that most of this must be hid is 
evident, as they reckon, because of the dearth of money im- 
mediately upon the calling-in of the State’s money, which 
was 500,0001. that come in; and then there was not any 
money to be had in this City, which they say to their 
own observation and knowledge was so. And _ therefore 
though I can say nothing in it myself, I do not dis- 
pute it. 

22d. Rendall, the house-carpenter, at Deptford, hath sent 
me a fine blackbird, which I went to see. He tells me he 
was offered 20s. for him as he come along, he do so whistle. 
We walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the 
nightingales sing. 

23d. Waked this morning between four and five by my 
blackbird, which whistled as well as ever I heard any; only 
it is the beginning of many tunes very well, but there leaves 
them, and goes no further. To White Hall; where, in the 
Matted Gallery, Mr. Coventry was, who told us how the 
Parliament have required of Sir G. Carteret and him an 
account what money shall be necessary to be settled upon 
the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to 
report 200,0001. per annum. And how to allott this, we 
met this afternoon, and took their papers for our perusal, 
and so parted. There was walking in the gallery some 
of the Barbary company, and there we saw a draught of the 
armes of the company, which the King is of, and so is called 
the Royall Company*—which is, in a field argent an ele- 


2?The Royal African or Guinea Company of Merchants. (See 


A24 DIARY OF [27th May, 


phant proper, with a Canton on which England and France 
is quartered, supported by two Moores. The crest an 
anchor winged, I think it is; and the motto too tedious: 
—“Regio floret patrocinio commercium, commercioque 
Regnum.” To Greatorex’s, and there he showed me his 
varnish, which he hath invented, which appears every 
whit as good, upon a stick which he hath done, as the 
Indian. 

24th. (Lord’s day.) Meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of Bramp- 
ton, he and afterwards others tell me that news come 
last night to Court, that the King of France is sick of the 
spotted fever, and that they are struck in again; and this 
afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone from the King to 
make him a visit; which will be great news, and of great 
import through Europe. By and by, in comes my Lord 
Sandwich: he told me this day a vote hath passed that the 
King’s grants of land to my Lord Monk and him should 
be made good; which pleases him very much. He also tells 
me that things do not go right in the House with Mr. 
Coventry ; I suppose he means in the business of selling places ; 
but I am sorry for it. 

27th. With Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the 
Exchequer; where we met the auditors about settling the 
business of the accounts of persons to whom money is due 
before the King’s time in the Navy, and the clearing of 
their imprests for what little of their debts they have 
received. I find my Lord, as he is reported, a very ready, 
quiet, and diligent person. I met with my cozen Roger 
Pepys, and he tells me that his sister Claxton now resolving 
to give over the keeping of his house, he thinks it fit to 
marry again, and would have me, by the help of my uncle 


Wright or others, to look him out a wife between thirty | 


and forty years old, without children, and with a fortune, 
which he will answer in any degree with a joynture fit 
for her fortune. A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he 
calls it. I demanded his estate. He tells me, which he 
says also he hath not done to any, that his estate is not full 


Strype’s Stow, ed. 1720, book v., p. 268.) Their house was called the 
African House (see Pepys, 13th Feb. 1663-4), and stood in Leadenhall 
Street. 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 425 


8001. per annum, but it is 7801. per annum, of which 2001. 
is by the death of his last wife, which he will allot for a 
joynture for a wife, but the rest, which lies in Cambridge- 
shire, he is resolved to leave entire for his eldest son. He 
tells me that the King hath sent to the Parliament to hasten 
to make an end by midsummer, because of his going into 
the country; so they have set upon four bills to dispatch: 
the first of which is, he says, too devilish a severe act against 
conventicles; so beyond all moderation, that he is afraid it 
will ruin all: telling me that it is matter of the greatest 
grief to him in the world, that he should be put upon this 
trust of being a Parliament man, because he says nothing is 
done, that he can see, out of any truth and sincerity, but 
mere envy and design. Then into the Great Garden up 
to the Banqueting House; and there by my Lord’s glass 
we drew in the species’ very pretty. Afterwards to nine- 
pins, Creed and I playing against my Lord and Cooke. 
This day there was great thronging to Banstead Downes, 
upon a great horse-race and foot-race. I am sorry I could 
not go thither. By and by comes Pembleton, and there 
we danced country-dances, and single, my wife and I; 
and my wife paid him off for this month also, and so he is 
cleared. 

28th. At the coffee-house in Exchange Alley, I bought a 
little book, ‘* Counsell to Builders,” by Sir Balth. Gerbier. 
It is dedicated almost to all the men of any great condition 
in England, so that the dedications are more than the 
book itself, and both it and them not worth a far- 
thing. By water to the Royal Theatre; but that was so 
full they told us we could have no room. And so to the 


1This word is here used as an optical term, and signifies the image 
painted on the retina of the eye, and the rays of light reflected from the 
several points of the surface of objects. 


?Sir Balthazar Gerbier, a native of Antwerp, who resided many years 
in this country, and died here in 1667. He published many works con- 
nected with architecture, and was as much a painter as an architect. In 
the “ Parliamentary Intelligencer” are several advertisements of lectures 
given by him at his Academy in Whitefriars, in 1649-50, on all sorts of 
subjects, in all sorts of languages, with an entertainment of music, “ so 
there be time for the same.” 

2F 


426 DIARY OF [3ist May, 


Duke’s house; and there saw “ Hamlett” done, giving us 
fresh reason never to think enough of Betterton. Who 
should we see come upon the stage but Gosnell, my wife’s 
maid, but neither spoke, danced, nor sung; which I was 
sorry for. 

29th. This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the 
King’s Coronation. Creed and I abroad, and called at 
several churches; and it is a wonder to see, and by that 
to guess the ill temper of the City at this time, either to 
religion in general, or to the King, that in some churches 
there was hardly ten people and those poor people. To 
the Royall Theatre, but they not acting to-day, then to the 
Duke’s house, and there saw the “ The Slighted Mayde,”* 
wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very 
well, and I believe will do it better and better, and prove a 
good actor. The play is not* very excellent, but is well 
acted, and in general, the actors in all particulars are 
better than at the other house. ‘Then with Creed to 
see the German Princesse,” at the Gate-house at West- 
minster. 

31st. (Lord’s day.) After dinner, read part of the new 
play of ‘The Five Hours’ Adventure,” which, though I 
have seen it twice, yet I never did admire or understand 
it enough—it being a play of the greatest plot that ever I 
expect to see. Made up my month’s accounts, and find 
myself clear worth 7261. This month the greatest news is, 
the height and heat that the Parliament is in, in enquiring 
into the revenue, which displeases the Court, and _ their 
backwardness to give the King any money. Their enquiring 
into the selling of places do trouble a great many; among 
the chief, my Lord Chancellor, against whom particularly it 
is carried, and Mr. Coventry; for which I am sorry. The 


1 By Sir R. Stapylton. 


?Mary Moders, alias Stedman, alias Carleton, of whom see more 
June 7, post, and April 15, 1664. She was a celebrated impostor, who 
had induced the son of a London citizen to marry her, under the pre- 
tence that she was a German Princess. She next became an actress, 
after having been tried for bigamy and acquitted. The rest of her life 
was one continued course of robbery and fraud; and, in 1678, she 
suffered at Tyburn, for stealing a piece of plate in Chancery Lane. 


1663] SAMUEL PEPYS 427 


King of France was given out to be poisoned and dead; but 

it proves to be the measles: and he is well, or likely to be 

soon well again. I find myself growing in the esteem and 
-eredit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my 
- business again will confirm me in it. 


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